THEN AND NOW.
"Did you ever.” asked the young husband, "have your wife look you in the eyes when you come home and ask you if you hud not forgotten something?” "Many a time, my boy,” answered the old married man. “She dots yet. In the early days it used to mean a kiss; now it is usually a reference to wiping my shoes.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XVI, 14 October 1899, Page 704
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64THEN AND NOW. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XVI, 14 October 1899, Page 704
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