HER REASON FOR LEAVING.
'Why, Mary Ann, I'm much Mirpri«ed That you should wi.sh to go ; Tlioro is* no reason tlmt y< u should — That in, none that I know. V™ huve but three to work for, and The work is very light, With nothing to disturb you from Tho morning till the night.' 'Sure, that's all tru^, mum, an' that's why I do be lav in,' fur 'Tia dreadful to be stay in' where There's not a bit of ntir. I'm goin' back to my ole place — Oeh ! that's the place for noieo — Eight childer, mum— yes, mum— an, MX Of thiin foine fightin 1 boys. 'An' thin the master and his wife — It's but the truth I spake — Do have a loively, tearin' quar'l At la to once in a Wake. Faith ! but it's like the oldjeounthry, Wid plfcint noise an' riot ; An' luck I'll qo t and not Rtay here lo die of pae o and quiet '
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 112, 25 July 1885, Page 7
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160HER REASON FOR LEAVING. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 112, 25 July 1885, Page 7
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