MOTHER'S WORK
IMy mother gets me up, builds the fire, and gets my breakfast, and sends me off to school, ' said a bright youth. 1 Then she gets my father up, gets his breakfast and sends him off. Then she gives the other children their breakfast and sends them to school. Then she and the baby have their breakfast. ' How old is the Baby ? ' ' Oh, she's 'most two, but she can talk and walk as well as any of us.' ' I get two dollars a. week and father gets five dollars a day.' 1 How much does your mother get ? ' With a bewildered look, the boy said : ' Mother. Why, she doesn't work for anybody.' ' I thought you said she worked for all of you.' ' Oh, yes, for us she does ; but there is no money in it.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 May 1907, Page 38
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137MOTHER'S WORK New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 May 1907, Page 38
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