MISUNDERSTOOD.
The life of the junior reporter on a local paper is not exactly all "beer and skittles." That, anyhow, was the opinion of the young man on the "Slip-Slop News and Ragtime Rambler.''
There had been an important wed ding in the district, and it was the reporter's duty to call at the house where the reception had taken place, and gather the fullest particulars.
"Can you," he remarked pleasantly to the servant who answered his ring, "let me have some details of to-day's ceremony?"
The servant frowned at him in a forbidding manner. "No, I can't!'' she snapped. "They ate every crumb! Ami 1 think an able-bodied man like you ought to be ashamed to beg!" .
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 168, 25 April 1916, Page 4
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118MISUNDERSTOOD. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 168, 25 April 1916, Page 4
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