“THINE, MINE, AND OURS.”
A widower with a family married a widow who had several children, and after a time new boys and girls increased the number of the home circle. Unfortunately a good deal of quarrelling occurred among the young people, the children by the first marriages setting themselves against the later comers. When the fighting waxed fierce between them, the mother was in the habit of calhng upon the father for his assistance, and she did so in the following words : ‘ Husband, come here, as quick as you can : thiae and mine are quarrelling with ours 1’
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 201, 9 June 1893, Page 7
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99“THINE, MINE, AND OURS.” Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 201, 9 June 1893, Page 7
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