HE WOULD CALL.
‘ Will yon keep anything to drink when you have a home of your own ?’ asked her father.
‘ Well, well,’ stammered the young man, ‘ in case of sick ness I think it well to have some.’
‘All right,’the old man replied, ‘you can marry my daughter, but don’t be surprised if I call upon you twice a week and get ill.’
Freddy • ‘ How you do hurt me combing my hair, nurse ; 1 wish I could do it like ma does.’ Nuise : ‘ Why ?’ Freddy : ‘ ’Cause ma hangs it on a nail and then combs it, and it don’t hurt her a bit.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 17, 23 April 1892, Page 433
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103HE WOULD CALL. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 17, 23 April 1892, Page 433
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