A Bit of Mother's Dress.
A little boy from one of our charitable institutions was being taken to a New Jersey farm by an agent, the owners of the farm having had the boy bound to them for a term of years, when the agent noticed that the boy kept placing his hand inside of his jacket on the left side, and occasionally would look within with a tender look. At last he said:
"What have you got in there, my little friend?"
" Oh, nothing, sir," he replied, " only a bit of my mother's dress, which I've sewed on my coat. It was the dress she had on when she died, and now it kind of comforts me when I touch it."— The News Letter.
An old gentleman, whose nose was not only very large but very high colored, was asked by a friend how much it had taken to paint it. "I cannot tell," was the reply, " for it is not finished yet."
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVI, Issue 997, 8 December 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)
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164A Bit of Mother's Dress. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVI, Issue 997, 8 December 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)
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