IS THAT ALL?

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 46

IS THAT ALL?

"Please state to tho court exactly what you did between 8 and 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning," said a lawyer to a delicate-looking little woman in the witnessbox. "Well," she said, after a moment's reflection, "I washed my two children and got them ready for school, and sewed a button on Johnny's coat, and mended a rent in Nellie's dress. "Then I tidied up my sitting room, and made two beds, and watered my house plants, and glanced over the morning paper. "Then I dusted my parlor and set things to rights in it, and washed some lamp-chimneys and combed my baby's hair and sewed a button on one of her little shoes; and then I swept my passage and brushed and put away the children's Sunday clothes, and wrote a note to Johnny's teacher asking her to excuse him for not being at school on Friday. "Then I fed my canary and cleared off the breakfast table, and gave the grocery man an order, and swept around the back door and then I sat down and rested a few minutes before the clock struck nine. That's all."