LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM
Father : Now, see ! If you marry that young pauper, how on earth are you going to live ? Sweet Girl : Oh, we have figured all that out. You remember that old hen my aunt gave me ? Yea. Well, I have been reading a poultry circular, and I find that a good hen will raise twenty chicks in a season. Well, the next season that will be twenty one hens ; and as each will raise more chicks, that will be 420. The next year the number will be 8,400, the year 168,000, and the next 3,330,000. Just think! At only a florin apiecs we will then have £336,000. Then you dear old papa, we'll lend you some money to pay off the mortgage on this house.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10319, 29 May 1895, Page 4
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127LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10319, 29 May 1895, Page 4
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