Then They Looked.
Tho other day a married rouple were walking down one of the mam thoroughfares of a north-country town, and tho husband, noting the attention other womPn obtained from passers-by, remarked to his better half :
I wish I'd
"Folk niwer look at tlio-\ married someone better looking."
Tho woman tartly repiiwi : "It's thy fault. Dusta think a nian"H stare at mo when you're walking \vi' me? The© step behind, and thah'll sec whether foik don't look at me."
He hung back about a dozen yards, and! for the length of a street was surprised to» see ©very man his wife pa-ssed stare hard at her, and turn round and look after her when she hacU-pasßed.
"Sal, lass!" he exclaimed, catching up to> sier, "I wad wrang, an' I tak' it back. I'll niwer say cv.-t about thy face again." His wily spouse- had accomplished the> trick by putting out her tongue at every man she met.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 72
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158Then They Looked. Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 72
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