DIPLOMATIC.
"Papa," said Georgia, "I'm so sorry sometimes about the trouble I give mamma." "She hasn't complained." "No, she's very patient. But she often scuds me to the shops for things, and they are a good way off, aud I know slie gets cross waiting when she's in a hurry."
"Not often, I fancy."
"Oh, she's nearly always in a hurry. She gets everything all ready for baking, aud finds at the last minute she hasn't any baking powder, or she gets a pudding all mixed and finds she hasn't any nutmeg or something, and then she's in an awful stew, 'cause the oven is all ready, and maybe company coming, and I can't run for a long distance, you know, and I feel awfully sorry for
poor maiiimn." "Humph! Well, what can we do about it?"
"I was thinking you might get me a bicycle."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9700, 3 November 1909, Page 6
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146DIPLOMATIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9700, 3 November 1909, Page 6
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