HER NOSE.
An odd story used to be told by O’Connell, the famous Irish leader, about a Miss Hussey. * Her father,’ said be, ‘ had made a will disposing of the bulk of his property to public charities. When he was upon his death-bed his houskeeper asked him how much he had left Miss Mary. He replie I that he had left her a thousand pounds, which would do for her very well, as she would probably soon pick up a husband.’ • Bless your honour !' cried the housekeeper, • what sort of a man wonld ever take her with the nose she has got ?’ * Why, that is really very true,’ said the dying father, * I never thought of her nose ;’ and he lost no time in adding a codicil that gave Miss Mary an addition of a hundred and fifty pounds a year as a set-off against her nose.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XIV, 7 April 1894, Page 332
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147HER NOSE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XIV, 7 April 1894, Page 332
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