SQUELCHED.
Philanthropist: My good man, what do you do with your wages each week? Put part of it in the savings bank?
Drain Worker: Naw; nawt on yei life. After I be payin' de landlord, de grocer, de bootcher, me life insurance, de corner s’loon an’ de instalments on me wife’s bicycle and me darter's piany, I packs away what’s left in barrels. I don’t belave in thim savin’s banks.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXII, 30 November 1901, Page 1060
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70SQUELCHED. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXII, 30 November 1901, Page 1060
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