HIS BUSY DAY.
""Work!" exclaimed Jones, after a particularly hard day at the office. " Don't talk to mc of work 1 What do von know about it, pray?" Stuv-at-homo Smith smiled thoughtfully.' " Well, I know just a little hit," lie said. "For instance, since I rose this- morning I'vo put down a linoleum, laid three carpets, papered four rooms, set up a stove, swept out the hall ——" " My dear boy!" cried Jones, compassionately. '< mended a chair." continued Smith, "made a couple of beds, sot tho tabic thrice, washed up the things afterwards, shifted a piano and a chest of drawers, and. lump: nine pictures." " Poor old chap I" gasped Jones. " Did your wife make you do all that?" "No; my little girl did," replied Smith. " I've just given her a doll's house."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10304, 8 November 1911, Page 2
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