Here's tact for you. "I was calling at a house in tlio avenue. There was a littta boy about seven years old, I should judge. He stared at me a long time, then went and whispered to bis mother. This was embarrassing, so I giggled and said: "It's rude to whisper in company!" The kid looked puzzled for a moment. Then he answered: 'It would 'a been a lot ruder to say it out loud,'- I '-
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2210, 24 July 1914, Page 10
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76Untitled Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2210, 24 July 1914, Page 10
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