HIS ACCOUNT OF ESCAPE FROM RIPAISLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 273, 16 June 1888, Page 6

HIS ACCOUNT OF ESCAPE FROM RIPAISLAND.

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Wife of yonn^; htoiaiy ivan : 'Why, rjcoigo— ten pounds ior that nia^a/ino sLoiy ! ]fo\v lon^ did it Like you to wi ile it !" Voun[r Husband (nonchalantly) : "Oh, J don't know. A con pit* of days, 1 niipposc." (cxultin^l)): "Five pounds ;i day! That's ihhty pound a week, and one hundied and twenty a month. Twelve times one hundied and twenty ib neaily diteen hundred a yeai. Why. (JooifiC we can keep a eai-nage |ii^t a.s well ;is not !" 7\t thih rate when would <ieorge have time lor carriage excj-eifce ?