WHO IT WAS.
Mrs Singleton' puts her head over the garden wall, and thus addressed her neighbour, who was hanging out her week’s washing ; ‘ A family has moved in the empty house over the way, Mrs Clothesline.' ‘ Yes, I know.’ ‘ Did you notice their furniture?’ ‘ Not particularly.’ ‘ Two van loads, and 1 wouldn't give a couple of pounds for the lot. Carpets ! I wouldn’t put them down in my kitchen. And the children ! I won’t allow mine to associate with them. And the mother ! She looks as if she had never known a day’s happiness. The father drinks, I expect." Too bad that such people should come into this neighbourhood. I wonder who they are.’ ‘ I know them.’ ‘Do you?. Well, I declare. Who are they?' ‘ The mother is my sister !’ A painful pause ensues.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 7, 13 February 1892, Page 168
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135WHO IT WAS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 7, 13 February 1892, Page 168
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