SHE HADN’T DROPPED OFF.
“Delia!” “Yis, ma’am.” "I am very tired, and I am going to lie down for an hour.” “Yis, ma’am.” “If 1 should happen to drop off call me at five o’clock." “Yis, ma’am.” So my lady lies down, folds her hands, closes her eyes, and is soon in the land of dreams. She is awakened by the clock striking six, and cries indignantly: "Delia!”' “Yis, ma’am.” “Why didn’t you call me at five o’clock as I told you to do?” “Shure, ma’am, ye tould me to call ye if ye had dropped off. I looked in on ye at five, and ye hadn’t dropped off at all! Ye was lyin’ on the bed in the same place, sound asleep.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue V, 3 February 1900, Page 240
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123SHE HADN’T DROPPED OFF. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue V, 3 February 1900, Page 240
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