A STRONG-MINDED MAMMA.
It was mid-night. The young man had farewelled himself out, and Emiline had locked the door and was untying her shoes, when her mother came down stairs with a bed-quilt around her and said:— " Wanted to creep upstairs without my hearing you, eh ? Didn't think that I knew that it was an hour after midnight, didn't you ! " The girl had no reply, and the mother continued :—" Did he propose this time ? " " Whymother !" exclaimed the daughter. " Vou can ' why mother' all you want to, hut don't I know that he has been coming here for the last year. Don't I know you've burned up at least four tons of coal courting around here ? " The girl got her shoes off, ami the mother in the stair-door asked, " Emiline, have you got any grit f" "I guess so." "I guess you haven't. I just wish that a feller with false teeth and a mole on his chin would tome sparking me. Do you know what would happen, Emiline ? " No." " Well, I'll tell you. He'd come to time in sixty days or he'd get out of this mansion like a goat jumping for sunflower seeds I " Emiline went to bed to reflect over it.
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 10, 8 December 1877, Page 4
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203A STRONG-MINDED MAMMA. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 10, 8 December 1877, Page 4
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