A SECRET.
" Bow do you do, Mrs. Tone-Miavd you heard that story about I 'Mrs: Lundv?"
" W.hy, no, Mrs, Gad—do tell !"' "■o!i,.-t promised not to tell- fpr all the world ;" no I must never tell on't I am afraid it will get our." "Why, I'll never tell on't aslonsf as' I live, jest as true as the world ; what sit ? come tell-.'' ...,-•..•■; • •
" Now you won't say anything about,: /will you.?" j, .- \- • " No, I'll never open my head about; •ifej never. Hope. to.die-thisoaiinute."4 " Well, if you'll believe me, Mrs.} Limday told me last'night;- that *-Mrs.'} Trott told her that her sister's hus-l band-wat told by apesou who dreamed' it, that' Mrs Trouble's oldest -daughter' told Mrs Nichens that her grandmother heard by a letter that she got from her third sister's second husband's oldest brother's step-daughter, that it was Ye-' ported by the captain, of a clainboaty arrived from the Fiji Islands, that the', mermaids of that section wore- shark--skins bustles, stuffed with pickled eel's toes."' • - '••,
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 175, 12 July 1872, Page 3
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165A SECRET. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 175, 12 July 1872, Page 3
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