WHAT IT WAS BUILT OUT OF.
"So you like our new house, uncle?" asked Helen, as she walked to the station with her crabby old relative. "District's all right, very fair," grunted the amiable l one, as he ambled along. "That's a nice house next door to us," went on Helen contemplatively. "Urn!" demurred the old one. "Now, that's what I call a residence," he said emphatically, stopping in his walk to point to a very imposing establishment. "Handsome house!" "Yes, uncle, it is, but built out of the groans and cries, the pain and misery, the long nights of anguish of men, women und children." "So," said the old chap, sadly. _ "A publican?" "No, dear—a dentis^l*
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)
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117WHAT IT WAS BUILT OUT OF. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)
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