Somebody's Darling
CHE .stood m the dock, arms on the rails. She stood austere and alone. Her broken jcrowned straw hat was all askew;' her grey locks straggled at all angles as if just combed by a hay-rake, and the sun, shining through the windows, touched some of those grey hairs with gold. "Twenty s shillings or forty hours," was the sentence, and the derelict curtseyed as she left the dock. j As she stepped from the court to enter the prison van, a young woman rushed up 'to her, threw her arms around her neck, and exclaimed: "Oh, Grannie!" She was somebody's darling after all.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 2
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106Somebody's Darling NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 2
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