THOSE DREADFUL CHILDREN.
" Attiouß " In tho Leader writes : — The peri'i cf neTfip'pJr reading for the very young and innocent have often be^n spoken of, and are believed m by the wife <£ a suburban clergyman. Lately a little girl m reading a police offi jo ca^e came on the following :—" Witness paid that he (tha prisoner) per^i-.rpntjy r^f red to miko an hrnaat MOman cf her." The innocent one asked her mamma what this meant — was the prisoner a clergyman like her pap* ihafc it 'a? m hin r»ow*r to make people honeut ! The exp'anation wns.gfcven that t'tis was fno'her w.<\y cf aaying ho refused to niavry her, and the newspaper wa< put away. Th»-t evening there were frlonda at tea, and the child to air her kno^locise eaid <o a newly married 'ady acroea the fable :— " It is exactly four weeks today aioee 'Mr Blank made an honent vromsn r.f ynu ! "
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1455, 13 January 1887, Page 3
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151THOSE DREADFUL CHILDREN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1455, 13 January 1887, Page 3
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