KNEW HER JOB.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 127, 31 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

KNEW HER JOB.

Tilings were getting desperate with a servantlcss lady She was therefore quite excited when the registry office people sent her a possible maid. "Are you a good cook?" she asked the gmly-drtsed applicant. " No, I don't cook," was the reply. " Are you accustomed to washing and ironing?'' "I'm afraid I couldn't do either, they're too had for the hands.'' "Can you aweep and turn out :

room ?"' "Ortainly not!" This was quite decided.) "I'm not sir Kb* enough " "Well, then." askeJ the lady of the house, what Co jv.ii do?" "I dust," replied tlio <iiil, p; cidly. a sorvantless lady. Site was thereloe "Now, Mr. Clever," coldly said the handsome young widow, as she watched the butcher weighing the sirloin she had just selected, "while T am fully conscious of the honour you wish to confer upon me, T must tell you that 1 have no intention at present of marrying again, and am compelled to refuse the offer of your hand."

" Bu-liu-but, mum," stammered the astonished butcher, "I've never offered you my hand." "Then why are ymi Irving In veigh it uu the siuli* fl'th tho nicit, sir?"