They had company to tea. The : table was -set out Splendidly. The biscuits were as white, and light and flaky as snow, and the cake was just lovely. The company were delighted with everythingi and '_ were, enjoying themselves hugely, and getting the •modus operandi of .making the biscuits, which were too lovely for any things when the infant of the household urifortunately whispered : " May why don't you* have such a tea when there ain't company ? " Simple as the query was, it " floored" ma.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 46, 28 March 1877, Page 3
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