A REVIVER.
A melancholy woman lay in sickness on her bed, And in a faint, broken voice, to her husband said : “ Dear David, when ray earthly form has turned to lifeless clay, 0 wait and weep a little While, nor throw yourself aWay. “I know a woman, kind and true, on Whom you may depend ; 0 marry Arabella Jones—she is my dearest friend.” “Yes, Hattie, I have much desired to talk of this before— For Arabella Jones and I have thought the matter o’er. ” “ Then you and Arabella Jones have been too smart and sly ; 1 tell you, David \Vilkmson, I’m not a going to die !” Her dark eye flashed, her strength returned, she left her bed of pain ; A week had hardly passed away, when she was was well agaim
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Kumara Times, Issue 992, 4 December 1879, Page 3
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