His Rescue.
Long and, wearily had his anxious wife waited, when.- at last the husband entered, and, with his-frame convulsed with anguish, threw himself into a chair, and, burying his face in' his hands, groaned : “ We are ruined ; to-morrow's sun will sea the proud name of Jenkins among the list of insolvents.” , Then out spoke the noble wife : “ Say not so, my dear Peter; all is not lost. We have gone without gas for the last three months, and here is the money you gave me for the gasman," and she placed £IO,OOO on the table. Saved I
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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 282, 10 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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98His Rescue. Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 282, 10 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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