MARY'S REPLY.
Tho housemaid could neither read nor write, so she took tho letter to her mistress to learn its contents. "Why, Mary," cried tho lady, "it's ft proposal from your friend Jack I He's a nice young man, too. But how are \ou going to reply? Shall 1 writo a letter for you?" " Thankee kindly, mum, but I'd rather do it myself. It ain't morc'u onco in a lifetime a gel 'as a, chance o' answorin' a, note like that." The mistress Ma;; puzzled to know how Mary would manage to write the reply, but ij'.adc no remark, except that she wouMfeid all writing materials in the librai^T "Thankee, mum, but 1 think I can tnauago wi' t' work-basket.'' And away she went in high glee. Presently she returned, haiuhVl her mistress a sheet of paper, and cheerily asked - '•'Will that do, mum? 1 ' On tho blank sheet of paper Mary had stitched an ordinary dressmaker's "eye," and close below a. bit of wool, signifying "I will."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10299, 2 November 1911, Page 2
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168MARY'S REPLY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 10299, 2 November 1911, Page 2
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