RIGHTING IT OUT.
A gentleman recently invited a friend to liis house to tea. Immediately on being seated at table a little daughter of the host said to the guest quite abruptl}'' ; ‘ Where is your wife ?’ The person appealed to, having been recently separated from the partner of his life, was surprised and annoyed at this question, and stammered forth the truth : ‘ I don’t know !’ ‘ Don’t know !’ replied Miss Pert. * Why don’t you know ?’ Finding that the child persisted in her questions despite the mild reproof of her parents, he concluded to make a clean breast of the matter, and have it over at once. So he said, with Calmness ; ‘ Well, we don’t live together. We think as re can’t agree we’d better not.’ He stifled a groan as the child began again, and darted an exasperated look at her parents. But the little torment would not be quieted until she exclaimed — ‘ Can’t agree ? Then why don’t you fight it out, as pa and ma do ?’ The child had to fight it out that night with pa and ma.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 10
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179RIGHTING IT OUT. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 10
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