NOT RIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 17 October 1891, Page 494

NOT RIGHT.

Those who undertake to correct the speech of their fellowmortals sometimes get unexpected results. ‘ Bridget,’ said a young housekeeper, who was somewhat fresh from college, •it would be useless for me to disguise the fact that your ignorance of grammar is very marked. Let me try to correct you. For instance, does it sound right for me to say, “ Bridget, you’ve been a-settin’ in the drawin’-room ?” ’ ‘ No, ma’am,’ said Bridget, frankly, but with evident surprise ; ‘ no, ma’am, it don’t sound right, but I were only a-settin’ there the mather of a half-hour or so wid my cousin Terence, who is j ust over. I s’pose that second girl has been a-tattlin’.’