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Accoums in tlie estate of the bite Mrs (iertrmle Hanrabim are requested to be rendered to Mr C. J. P. Sellers, solicitor. '1 he story -is told that a Feilding butcher received a novel order tiom a girl customer the other day—two pounds of sheep's mouths. He was {U a loss to know what she meant, hut after investigation it transpired thatthe buyer of the family’s meat supplybad threatened to “smack a sister over the chop*." but having been reprimanded l*v her mother for using the word “chops ” she thought it would be out of place to do so in stating her requirements to the butcher, so she substituted “sheeps mouths” for the hotter known chop.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1925, Page 3
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118LATE LOCALS. Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1925, Page 3
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