The old Scots widow, on her way to dress the tombstones of her three late husbands, was accosted by a former lover with fluent expressions of sympathy. “Three gwid men,” he sighed. “Ah, Maggie, ma heart bleeds for ye.” “Awa’ wi’ ye and yer sympathy,” she snapped. Had ye ony spirit yer name wad be there as weel.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1938, Page 10
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