OUT ON THE Q.T.
"Have you any — auy strawberries?" she asked, as she suddenly entered an ironmongery store, m Qieen street, " Not to-day, madam, sorry to say," courteously replied the proprietor. 11 Great Scott ! but is the woman crazy ?" exclaimed a customer, as she went slowly out.
"No, clr, not a bit of it,' eald the peoprietor. " She was down town without her husband knowing it. She saw him on the street and dodged m here to escape meeting hrn. JSba was quite confuted, and asked for strawberries. Happens three or four times a week, air, ana the poor things are quite excusable. —Auckland "Ball."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 2
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105OUT ON THE Q.T. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 2
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