A FAMILY QUARREL.
‘ There is a storm brewing, ’ said the teapot one morning: ‘our missis is the meanest woman in town, and she is going to sell some of us to ’ * Ob, cut it short,’ interposed the knife. * I won’t see her run down,’ chimed in the clock. •Indeed,' freezingly replied the barometer, ‘you’re a nice one to talk about what you know nothing about.’ * Oh, you shut up,’angrily said the door, ‘ your own information is generally at zero.’ ‘ Well, I fail to see where the meanness comes in,’ said the window. ‘Perhaps,’ mildly remarked the cat, ‘ our missis has some purr-pose in view.’ ‘ Oh, blow it,’ warmly answered the fire, ‘l’m hearth-ily sorry to see you de-fender; you whom she always treated with such cat-ling incivility.’ ‘ Well,’ remarked the broom, who was determined to take them down a peg or two, ‘ you must admit that missis has kept us for a long time, rent free (‘Quite true,’ stuck in the gluepot,)’ and as she is shortof money she must sell some of us.’ ‘That sweeping assertion has silenced them all,’ reflected the mirror. E. T. B.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 473, 21 May 1890, Page 4
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187A FAMILY QUARREL. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 473, 21 May 1890, Page 4
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