HAD TO HAVE RELIEF.
The little girl in this story had been anxious to peep in upon the grown-up world and find out what kind of conversation took place between her mother and her friends. She had begged to be permitted to stay in the drawingroom when her mother received visitors, and at last she was granted permission. She was quiet ; she sat demurely for a while and listened. Then she went out, and presently a curious noise of thuds and knocks was heard outside.' It was not loud. Presently she came in again and took her seat, sat patiently a little longer, and got up and went out. Again the same peculiar noise was heard. After the visitors had gone her mother called her and said : ‘ What were you doing out there, and why did you leave the room ?’ ‘Well, I’ll tell you, mamma; I got so tired of hearing these women talk that I went out in the lia.ll and turned; somersets to relieve myself.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 43, 25 October 1890, Page 8
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167HAD TO HAVE RELIEF. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 43, 25 October 1890, Page 8
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