The Veil Lifted.
- "And how are you to-day, Mrs Smith?" asked the district visitor. "Oh,, don't you talk to me!" "What has happened?? asked the visitor, in > surprise. "Me 'usband, ma'am," replied, the other. "Married 'im six months Bince, and thought I was doin' myßelf a bit of good. Sweep, that's wot 'c was, and a.better-'earted or moro 'ard-*rark«i* t ]feller you wouldn't find. An' yesterday 'c gets run' over, and was took to the 'orspitatT' ' "Dear, dear!" said fhe visitor. "Was he hurt much?"' "I was when I see 'im just now! snapped' the other. "The first thing they «Kd was to give rim. a. bath, and it comes as a bit' of a shock to a woman when she thinks^ she's 'found a decent Englishman for a 'usband to find out as 'er old man's a nigger!"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 91
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139The Veil Lifted. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 91
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