A FORCIBLE REASON.
VAGRANT: ‘l’m wery sorry, but I shall have to trouble you to get oft* that seat, miss.’ Miss Smart (indignantly) : ‘ Indeed, and why? I understood the se«ts were free.’ Vagrant : 4 Oh, yes, it’s only the chairs as yer pays for ; these ’ere benches is for the likes o’ you an’ me, but you’ll ’ave to get up ’cause I left my clay pipe ’ere just now, and you’re a settin’ on it; I can smell it burnin’.’ She got up.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 32, 9 August 1890, Page 20
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84A FORCIBLE REASON. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 32, 9 August 1890, Page 20
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