A BOY WHO UNDERSTANDS EM
The other morning a boy about 14 ’jjfftai of a house |on Brushrstreet and-’asked’the ’ woman if '*shd didn’t‘want 6ffthe%p.' :;k ‘ t u •; • ‘ How much I, »hh'(»uti6udji ! ‘Thirty cent*, ■^ l 7 0, • I : won’t pay If you to do the work for'ten ahead. ; " to, He leaned’ bn the handle* of his snow shovel and lookedrthoughtfUjl, she ‘finallyQueried‘ ’ r I' 5. A , t ' f 'Xfy just wbman : mrp,vin4 ,she heitepUed. if i.shpyeijed off her snow and she gave me fifty cents. I toid her l was ,coming to aakyou, and nhnafcid~ ,Vf '' '■ : ;; vjr ‘I don’t know her. ‘What busifibss ••islVtb'herf j ", J/-’:.-. ..^./.Yea^ut^r--’* j. i^ 'What did she say? ,r>Mt ' She isaidT’d get left. She said that any woman iwho s wore ««jfiosh -sacque and passed it off for a £3OO sealskin would b0 jaean go out nights and shovel her own-snow.’ r?:;Boy! ;whisperfed the ' wom'aftiasfhe turned yWfflfc cMr WOund her neck.l* I f want you f6 dekh off the snow. When you are through”!’!! give you a silyer dollar; want ypu to go tha,t anyoae ;; whp 4 buys and wears dollar-store jewellery and fourteen.shillmgfahoea hasu,t got sense enough"to fall hbofctiuted car,*
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PATM18860519.2.16
Bibliographic details
Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 May 1886, Page 2
Word Count
195A BOY WHO UNDERSTANDS EM Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 May 1886, Page 2
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.