A Promise of Reform.
In a village not far from Newcastle there dwells a kindly old gentleman who has a grdeer's shop with a beer-off license. He is assisted in the management by his only daughter Bella, between whom and himself there exists a strong mutual attachment. The old gentleman occasionally gets on the spree, and Bella, who is full of merriment, sometimes locks her father up in the cellar for a short while, telling him that she is determined to punish him for his behavour. She did this the other day, when her father cried vehemently for his release, shouting: “If ye’ll only let's oot, Bella, hinny, aa’ll tyek six seats at the Wesleyan chapel!”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 18, 29 April 1908, Page 58
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116A Promise of Reform. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 18, 29 April 1908, Page 58
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