OLD ENOUGH TO BE A BOY.
She was the only female child, and she had three brothers. One day she was seen to take all her dolls and other female toys and throw them into the back yard. Then she marched into her mother and said :
‘ Mamma, I want to get some of Frank’s clothes.’ (Frank was her smallest brother.) * What do you want with them ?' ‘ I want to put them on.’ ‘ What for/ * Well, don’t you think I’m about old enough now to be a boy ?’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 48, 29 November 1890, Page 18
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87OLD ENOUGH TO BE A BOY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 48, 29 November 1890, Page 18
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