Stranger
A Negress who had lost ker kusband was attending his funeral. Eastus had certainly not been renowned for following the strait and narrow path. However, the parson conducted the serviee insisted on praising the deceased man's virtues, most of them quite unknown to the wife. She listeued quietiy for some time, but at length she could stand it no longer. Juinping to her feet, she interrupted the minister's .eulogies. "Parson," she criod, "yo is burying the wrong manl ' ' A man reprimanded hig little son for eating nothing but cakes at teatime. '' When I was your age, I got nothing but bread and butter at teatime," hq said. "You must be awfully glad you came to live here, daddy," observed the bay, brightly.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 18
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123Stranger Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 18
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