BRIDGET'S GOOD LUCK.
Mistress : ‘ You got back early, Bridget.’ Bridget: ‘ Yis, mum. Oi rode in a kerrage ; leastwise it was as good as a kerrage.’ ‘ You were fortunate.’ ‘ Yis, mum ;it happened this way, mum. Oi forgot th' strate an’ number, but says Oi, “ If Oi can find th' schmallpox hospertal, Oi'll know me way,’’ says Oi; an" so Oiaxed th' way ; an' all at once everybody gave a holler an' run, and a polaceman run around the corner, and befar Oi knew phwat had come over thim all, Oi was hilped into an ambulance and given an illigant roide most all th’ way here, mum.'
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 38, 17 September 1892, Page 942
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106BRIDGET'S GOOD LUCK. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 38, 17 September 1892, Page 942
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