"If you please, sir/ Mrs Slapcabbage said, as she entered the portals of a pharmaceutical establishment, " I want one of them thingummybobs with a bit of silver on the end." The apothecary stared. " I fancy," he murmured, " we have none left in stock." " Why, ye"s, jqu must 'aye," urged the anxious woman. " I mean one of them things that reggylates the heat of a room.' 5 " Oh, a thermometer I" exclaimed the now enlightened man, producing one. " TTiat's *-hf kind, sir : that'll do beautiful," said Mrs Slapcabbage. " And, if it won't be too much trouble, sir, set it at sixty-five, please, 'cause that's what the doctor sea I'm to keep the room at."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9253, 4 June 1908, Page 1
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