"Nuzzin' ov she Kind."
'Oh, here yon come, tired M Oioal,' exclaimed Mrs Snapper, as her lord/fall as a tick, entered their bedroom at two o'clock in the morning; * iti a pity you didn't stay out all night, then maybe you get home sober.' ' AJI rt\ duckie darlin'. Qb back :W fa shay sho.' 'No you wou't neither. You'll go right to bed. Got one of your usual excuses, I suppose. Been detained with a customer on important business/ 'No*zin'ov she kii'd.' / 'Had to attend lodge for work in the 99th degree, and was kept late.' • Nuzzin or sho kind.' - 'Ob, then you—you went to the Ofgani* sation of a new temperadce society, missed the last car, and had to walk home. That's what makes you so tired. Oh, you bold, bad man.' 1 Nuzzin' ot she kind ' . .''" ' Perhaps you bad to see a friend off on the boat?' • Nuzzia* or she kind.' ' You're enough todrire a woman wild with your idiotic ' nusiin' or she kind.' Where hare yon been? Of coarse you haTen't been drinking,' 'Been haTin' a right big drink'ith th f boys. Had lotzer inn,' and Mr Snapper winked at himself in the looking-glass. ' Wha-at J' exclaimed Mrs S., and she was so completely lost in astonishment at his making the admission that she couldn't say a word, but turned her faea to the wall, and gnashed her teeth until break* fast time.
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Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5824, 29 September 1887, Page 1
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236"Nuzzin' ov she Kind." Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5824, 29 September 1887, Page 1
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