The girl asked the polite salesman if he had good cheese. “We have some lovely cheese,” was the smiling answer. “You should not say lovely cheese,” she corrected. “Why not? It is,” he declared. “Because”-—with a boarding-school dignity—“lovely should be used to qualify only something that, is alive.” “Well,” he. retorted, “I’ll stick to lovely.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 8 March 1911, Page 70
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