VERY MUCH AT HOME.
■ Speaking of the scarcity of domestic servants, a certain! blue-blooded county family, in whose household there had been some thing in the way of a strike, were several weeks ago, perturbed to receive am intimation, afc a very short notice, that they were to receive a visit from some distinguished people whose acquaintance they had long soughlb. ; With great pluckiness two of the three pretty daughters of, the house turned to and cooked the luncheon, and the third, disguised in) a cap aaad apron, posed a ipjarlourmiaia. Weeks after, ait a function in town, both families met, and the head of the distinguished bunch expressed to the third sister his megret that she had not been at home ok the occasion of his visit.
'au, but - was at home," the little rogue admitted; "it was I who smacked your face, when you tried to kiss me behind the hall door."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11992, 10 July 1903, Page 7
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154VERY MUCH AT HOME. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11992, 10 July 1903, Page 7
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