A RELIABLE DOMESTIC.
‘ Here is a note I want you to hand to Mrs Lively when you are sure nobody is looking,’ said a New York societyman to a coloured servant at a fashionable Fifth Avenue residence. ‘ Yes, sah,’ replied Sambo, showing his ivories. ‘ But, mind you, don't whisper a word to a living soul.’ ‘ You kin jess rest easy about dat, boss. Yisterday I fetched dat ar - same woman a letter from anudder gemman, an' I ain't said a word bout it to nobody yit. You kin jess rest easy erbout my opening iny mouf.'
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 6, 6 February 1892, Page 144
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96A RELIABLE DOMESTIC. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 6, 6 February 1892, Page 144
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