A Fashionable Misfortune
He had boon to tho city and wont home bninful of newp. "You 'member tho Smiths ?" he a a ked ' his wife, " the Silver Crik Smiths, them as got rich on thoiv grand fey iher's money." Ye?, she retncmberod them. " I seen 'em. The>'io way up ; live in a giau'hou-e on a stiee^ they call thavuuo They lide in ;v double k> ni,ge ard hey no end of money.'" She said she a'poeed a& much. "But, Mandy ! \ou wouldn't want tcr change places with her, I ?oe her a minnit an' I didn't hey tho heart to apeak t' hor." She said she'd like to know vhy ; stuck up thing, " No, she ain't, Mandy ; not now. She bin humbled rite down to the dust. She's as blind as a bat," Blind ! She guessed not. " But she is. First she didn't know me — me that'ti rid down hill and played tag with her when she warnt knee high to a turkey. Then, Mandy, tho' her eyes waw wide open she went rite along the streets all dressed up in her fine close, and a little mite of a dog was leading her along. He was tied to a streeng, and she had hold t'other end of the streeng. Now, Mandy, how'd you like to sco her ?"
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8
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218A Fashionable Misfortune Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8
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