So Neighbourly!
"Good afternoon!" said Mrs Nagg. with Sey politeness to her next-door neighbour. "Would you mind not looking out when my visitors are passing? It niakes the place 'look vulgar." j "Thought they were brokers men, re- ! plied Mrs Snap 1)}1 )} pleasantly. "You and your sister, or charwoman or whatever sheds, are not the kind that men visitors run after much, are you?" . I "Better than some people .vhose usomi<s flare run away from them/ observed her poighbour. "What do you mean,- ma'am?" "I name no name 3; their 'usbiii3 may lie in prison or they may not. ! Ave you seen any doormat, by the bye? I missed it yeb- j tei-tUy." „ , ! "When I become a thief, ma'am, 111 steal SOiiTPtblagf lhat's clean." "Well. I must go," said Mrs Nagg cor- i idially; "I wish I could ston, but I've got io cdU on a lady." '■And so, of course, you feel awkward. Going to ask 'or a place as cooß, perhaps? Well. I -^ha'n't keep you. ma'am. Hoed evening!''
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Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 80
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171So Neighbourly! Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 80
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