AS THIN AS THAT!
Poor Mick Mulholland was in a bad way. Nothing that the could do seemed to make him any fatter. As his brother said, he just lay there and wilted' like a pansy in the desert. But Mick wasn't any pansy—all he needed was fresh air and exercise, for both of which remedies he entertained a profound dislike.
His complaint was really chronic laziness. However, an invalid in the house ti.ade a pleasant topic of conversation for the neighbours, so nobody complained—least of all Mick himself. Downstaii'®, in the little-sitting-room, Joseph Mulholland and Denis Grady were" talking things over. u It's sad to see the liko of it," said Joseph. " 'Tis that," agreed Denis. "So thin be is." They sighed together. "Thin is it?" commented Joseph. "I tell ye, Denis-, it's you and I are thin as charity soup ourselves; but poor old Mick is as t-hin as the two of j lis put together, that he is I" I
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11507, 1 October 1915, Page 4
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