SHE DIDN’T COME ON.
A <;AV fellow, who had taken lodgings at a public-house and got considerably into debt, absented himself and took new quarters. This so enraged the landlord that he commissioned his wife to go and dun him—hearing which, the debtor declared publicly that if she came he would kiss her. ‘ Will he ?’ said the lady, ‘ will he ’ Give me my bonnet, Molly ; I will see whether any fellow on earth has such impudence !’ ‘ My dear,’ said the somewhat jealous husband, ‘ pray do not be too rash: you do not know what a man may do when he is in a passion.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 26 September 1891, Page 428
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104SHE DIDN’T COME ON. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 26 September 1891, Page 428
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