God Bless our Hone.
Senator Quay, while- dming at a eoiinttyhotel, noticed among -the 'rigns on the wall, one reading "Ici on parle. Fraricais." senator was somewhat 'amused' and "swr--" prised, oecause the necessity of bein^'.able tot speak French in ,that .particular section i of rural-Pennsylvania ,h/ad. never 'ap'-TI pealed to ""him. Therefore' he called" me i proprictor"tohim, and said, -'Do ydu'speat French 1". .. -_.... - . , - w I "Not much," was the answer. "United States w'3l do for me-' r ' ' ";
"Then why dc you" have that sign stuck up here? It mean, that French is. spoken here." _ - ..»_■>;■.,- "Xe don't cay so !" replied the astonished publican. . "I'll-b« hanged if J didn't buy that .from a young felfer who told me that" it meant bles3~.ou'r home !,' " '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2556, 11 March 1903, Page 71
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122God Bless our Hone. Otago Witness, Issue 2556, 11 March 1903, Page 71
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