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Overdone.

The following fable from the Japanese is a neat hit at the capacity which some women have for overdoing what they undertake.

Once upon a time a man discovered the fountain of youth. Thanks to ifca magic, he returned young, afcroug, and hearty to the land from which but a short time before he had departed old and enfeebled. The first person he met after his return wa3 &n old woman, and he told her about the fountain.

The woman knew a gocd thing when she heard it, and she at once set off to seek rejuvenation upon her owa account. The neifc day when the man again repaired to the fountain he found by its side a few days' old baby. It was the woman. She had overdone it.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 52

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Overdone. Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 52

Overdone. Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 52