A most interesting sight to see is that of a young lady, with "lips like rubies," and with '* teeth of pearly whiteness," and with cheeks that have stolen the " deep carnation of the deathless rose," with her mouth full of gingerbread ! Faith may be able to remove a mountain, but when a women takes her knitting and patch-work and visits her next-door neighbour, it will take a derrick as well as faith to remove her to her own house m time to prepare her husband's dinner. "What are you looking for?" asked one of the widow Bedott's two daughiers who were entertaining their young fellows on tire piazza rather late one night last summer, to their mother, who seemed to be hunting for some-thing around the front yard. " The morning papers," answered the widow. The young men left.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 825, 3 July 1879, Page 2
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