JUST SO.
"Hetty," rebelliously cried the viear's nine-year-old daughter, "am I ever going to have a new frock? That's the worst of being the youngest—l've got to wear everyone else's cut-down dresses!"
'•rou're a very naughty girl, Caroline!" reproved the elder sister. "Yon tS'-em to forget that father's got to keep' eight of us on very little money!" "It's always tho same!" snivelled the baby of the family, as she flounced; out of the room, "Can't have this, can't hive that, can't have anything in tl>'> house!"
Smack she bumped into tho vicar himself.
"Crying!" he enquired. "I've splendid news! A dear little baby sister has arrived!"
Having delivered his bombshell, lie stood back to seo the effect.
Caroline pulled herself together quickly. I
"Well, papa," she said disgustedly, "I suppose it can't be helped now; but I do think there were a lot of other things we needed more."
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 28 January 1919, Page 4
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150JUST SO. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 28 January 1919, Page 4
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