SHE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT.
Teacher : * If yonr mother had 25 yards of stuff, and made : a dress containing 18 yards, how much would she have left f Little Girl: * Mamma can’t make her own dresses. She has tried often, and they are always, either too * Teacher : ‘ Suppose she sent it to a dressmaker, how much would the dressmaker send back F Little Girl: * Depends on which dressmaker she sent it to. Some wouldn’t send back any.’ Teacher (impatiently): * Suppose she sent it to an one F Little Girl: ‘ Some of the honestest ones ent things to waste so that there is never anything left, no matter now much you send ’em.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 18, 30 April 1892, Page 462
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112SHE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 18, 30 April 1892, Page 462
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