TOO LATE FOR LESSONS.
Mick's wife "hed her own way 6v doin' things," which occasionally irritated "hissilf," whose temper at the best "ov toimes wus none oy the best." On coming home for supper she asked him "Will yez hey id dun in the pan avick?" Mick: "Ach, there yez go, will yez this or will yez thet? Why don't yezz make a craythur their suppef.... .jist whativir way yer for doin' id, an' axe no queskions, or be botherin' me what Oi'll take?" Wife: "Tut, tut, man aloive! What's on yez at all; what harm is id at all ?" Mick: "Ach, shure if yez hed half an eye yez cud see OPm too toired till do inything but ate" id, widout goin' in til the cookery lissons at this tpime ov tioiffht." 132
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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134TOO LATE FOR LESSONS. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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