HE KNEW WHAT TO DO.
They were walking together under a Tory little umbrella, and she liked him well enough not to want a large spread of the alpaca. He was modest and seemed to bo nervous, and she finally remarked rery softfy, and with a note of interrogation : ■" Charlie P" "Yes, Fannie," he responded. "I'll carry the umbrella, if you'll let me." " Oh, no, I can carry it. 1' " Yes, Charlie, but, you see, your arm takes up so much room that one side of me is out in the wet." "■ I know that, Fannie ; but what will I do with my arm, won't it be in the way just the same ?" 111 don't know, Charlie. Gus Clarke always knows what to do with his when he is walking under an umbrella with Mary Martin, because Mary told me so." Poor Charlie! " '
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5101, 23 May 1885, Page 4
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143HE KNEW WHAT TO DO. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5101, 23 May 1885, Page 4
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