SIMPLE TRUTH.
«'' She wai a charitable old lady, of a somewhat inquiring turn of mind, and was paying a visit to one of our hospitals. Presently she came to the bedside of a poor mner wiio was one of tne victims of a receur explosion. "My poor fellow," s-he •ad, depositing a bunch of grapes within his reach, "your sensations and sufferings at the time of the accident must have been terrible. Can you—will you, describe them to in V" "v»ey, mam," said Geordie, "Aa hardly think a can, but aa was acreudin' ma duty, when aal ov a sudden there was a most infernal row—an' then the nurse says, 'Sit up and tuck this ' "--H. Hastings, Newcastle.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9565, 30 December 1909, Page 3
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