A SUMMER EPISODE AS EVOLVED BY LITTLE JOHNNY.
Last summer our d<>i* Towser was ft lying 1 in the sun a trine to sleep, but the flies was that bud he curUlont, cos ho had to catch 'em, on 1 binie hy a bee lit on his lied, and was a working about like the dog was hisn. Towser, he M
his hed still and when the bee was close to his nose, Towser winked at me, like he sa'ii, you see, what this* duffer is a doing, he thinks I'm a lilly of the valley, wich isn't open yet, but you just wait till I blossom and you will see some fun ; and sure enough Towser opened his mouth very slow so as not to frighten the bee, and the bee went inside Towser's mouth. Then Towser he shet his eyes dreamy and his mouth too, and had begun to moke a smile, when the bee stung him, and you never see a lilly of the valley ack so in ol' your life.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 2, 16 June 1883, Page 4
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174A SUMMER EPISODE AS EVOLVED BY LITTLE JOHNNY. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 2, 16 June 1883, Page 4
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