THEN SHE TOLD HIM.
Miss Krab—as her name, perhaps, might lead one to suppose—was a maiden lady of uncertain age; and, poor woman, like many of her kind, not ret, had she realised that her days of blushing coyness now were passed. Ln fact, she still cherished the fond illusion that years had left her beauty unimpaired, and that, in due course, some gay cavalier would come to claim her hand. Then one day, instead of the gay :avalier, came the census officer to make inquiry of those very subjects which wore forbidden. Miss Krab was greatiy wroth. "Have 3 T ou seen the girls next door," she asked—"the Hill twins?" "Yes," replied the census man. : 'And they told me their ages without a murmur." ''Oh! Then I'm just as old as they are!" snapped Miss Krab. A smile played round the mouth of the census officer. Then he took out a notebook and wrote: "Miss Ivrab, spinster, as old as the hills."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 3
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163THEN SHE TOLD HIM. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 3
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