WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
The following story has been handed to us as what might happen to some of our out-country people i,f. the roads do not improve :
A darky and his brown sweetheart, followed by three pickaninnies, applied to the clerk of a Souther/i courthouse for a license to wed. The clerk eyed the assemblage doubtfully. "Whose children are these ?” he asked.
“Dey our’n," was the ready response from the man. The clerk was scandalised, being new at his post. '‘You ought to lie ashamed ofi yourselves, waiting to get 1 married till you have a family half ■ grown—”
“Jedge, you’ll have to excuse dat,” interrupted the "bride/’ sweetly. "D? roads out 'our way is so bad!”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4444, 24 July 1922, Page 4
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117WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4444, 24 July 1922, Page 4
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