HE KNEW BY EXPERIENCE.
‘You should try and be a little more gentle, Reginald,’ said the mother of an obstreperous six-year-old ; ‘the Bible tells us that the meek shall inherit the earth, you know.’ ‘And what good would the earth do me, even if I did inherit it?’ snorted that injured spirit wrathfully. ‘You’d either make me put it in the bank, or send it to the heathen, or divvy it up with sister Sue, or lay it away and only’ use it on Sundays.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 3 June 1899, Page 771
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85HE KNEW BY EXPERIENCE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 3 June 1899, Page 771
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