O' COURSE
Brooks had sent Rivers a Christmas present of a fine meerschaum pipe. 'Going to use it?' asked Mrs. Rivers. ' Sure !.' Placing a pinch of tobacco in the bowl he lighted it, took three or four puffs, emptied it, put the pipe back in its case and filed it away in a pigeon-hole of his desk. Then he resumed his strong old brier root. ' Lena,'' he said, ' didn't I promise you I'd buy a new rug for the front parlor ?' ' You did.' 'Well—' (Puff.) ' You tell Brooks about this—(Puff, puff.) ' And you won't get that rug.'
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New Zealand Tablet, 18 December 1913, Page 61
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97O' COURSE New Zealand Tablet, 18 December 1913, Page 61
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