MR JONES ASMISS MAUD'S BROTHER.
~_•, ._• _, T T _ _ .» ' No, Mr Jones, I cannot be your wife, as my heart is already iv the keeping of another, but I will be a sister to __. * Oh. lb barf toMO b, oblig„ tO give you up, Miss >; .md and .till your *** cr y generous offer to be a Bister eatinot go unaccepted. I shall try to be worthy—ah, I mu.t be goiug now-~ good-night, sister.' The next day Miss Maud received a package, and upon opening it discovered that it contained—a pair of veteran and disabled trousers, four pairs of well ventilated Books, and a buttonless shirt. There was a note appended.':*— > •Dearold Mane!.—Thanks awfully for being a sieter to me. Please meed the enclosed as quickly as you can, and let me have them baok, aB I want them for the seaside;—Yoor affectionate brother, George,'
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Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5523, 18 June 1889, Page 3
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142MR JONES ASMISS MAUD'S BROTHER. Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5523, 18 June 1889, Page 3
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