Grandma Got Better.
Little Harry's experience with death was limited to tho decease of a pet canary, which had been sent to a taxidermist, and now adorned the parlour mantel. His grandmother, of whom he was very_fond, was taken suddenly ill. For some time after he learned of her condition he sat in a brown study ; then, as if coming to a sudden resolution, he tiptoed into the sick room and cautiously approached the bed, fixed his serious big brown_ eyes upon his dear relative, and said, with a. little quiver in bis voics : " Say, grandma, if you die, which would you rather be, buried or stuffed ?— 'cause, if you're buried we can't see you no more, but if you're stuffed we can eet you in the parlour." Grandma immediately bc^an to mend.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 52
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