A WELL-LAID PLAN.
"Look at this,- my dear," said Mr. Newrich to his wife, displaying a finecase of jewels.
"Oh! You have bought them for me r haven't you?" she exclaimed. "How sweet of you!"
"No, my love. I have bought them for my grandmother."
"Your grandmother?" "Yes, dear."
"But she is a bed-ridden nonagenarian, and lives away off somewhere in Ireland. She can't appreciate them."
"True, dear! And she need never know anything about them."
"What in the world do yon mean?'*
"Simply this, dear. It is always advisable to have some heirlooms in a family that makes any social pretensions. These jewels now belong to my grandmother, When our daughter Ethel comes out in a year or two,. she shall have them ; and when it is understood that they were once the gems of her great-grandmother, just see the antiquity which our family will develop, and all on account of my having a great head."
And Mr. Newrieh threw, mental bouquets at himself with supreme lavishness.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 6
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168A WELL-LAID PLAN. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 6
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