A CUTE LANDLADY.
A‘ wise lady who keeps a fashionable boardinghouse at Brighton has taken an excellent method of checking the disposition of her guests to embrace the pretty chambermaids with which the establishment abounds. A frolicsome youth received at the end of his month a bill in which these charges occurred:— s. d. To one attempt to embrace Mary 5 0 To one attempt to embrace Jane 2 6 To one attempt to embrace Fanny 7 0 To kissing Fanny 16 0 To catching Jane round the neck _I. 0 To holding Mary by the waist 5 0 £1 10 G Poor Jane, being antique and freckled, was put at the bottom of the list, while Fanny the buxom was classed Al. The young man pa:d Die bill without a murmur, but inquired what it cost to kiss the landlady. “That goes with the receipt, said the good lady demurely, and the seal was forthwith placed upon the bnsiness document.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 7
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161A CUTE LANDLADY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 7
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