RESERVED HER VERDICT.
A gemfclemain who 1 w^as mo longer young, andi who nevter was handsome, said to a> child) in the presence of her parents:
Well, miy dhild, what do you* think of me?'
The little girl made no reoly, and the gentleman idonitinuiedi:
'Well you don't tell me. Wfaiyi wont yotti?" ' Tw)o: little fat hands' tucked the oornerß of a pinafore, into her mouth, as she said archly, in ai timid whis-~ ;per: "'Oause I don't want to get
wbipped."
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Thames Star, Issue 10422, 15 May 1909, Page 5 (Supplement)
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82RESERVED HER VERDICT. Thames Star, Issue 10422, 15 May 1909, Page 5 (Supplement)
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