Neighbourly Mr Whiggens.
Mrs Nippy frowned t a little. '1 don't like to go without" you, dear," she said; "but Bernhardt nray never play here' again — and you've bough! the seats and all " "It's too bad," Mr Nippy answered ; "but there's no way out of it. I've simply got to stay at home to look over those proofs to-night. Why' not -ask one of the neighbour women to go with you There's Mrs W'hiffgens, ior instance.." "I believe I'll ask" her," said Mrs Nippy.
Mrs Whiggens was delighted tc .go. At 8 o'clock the houses-was still, and Nippy was up to his ears in work. The door-bell .rang. Whiggen? stood outside.
"Hullo, Mippy!" he said. "The women seem to have deserted .us to-night, so I thought I'd run jn and snend the evening with you!" — Judge. 1
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Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 79
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137Neighbourly Mr Whiggens. Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 79
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