SHE MISSED ONE KICK
" Are you the lady of the house ?" " Vis, sir : at the prisent spakin' Oi'm th' only lady in th' house, sor." " I'm enlarging pictures, madam. If . you have any old photograph or daguerreo- - type I will take it and make a life-size r crayon drawing free of charge." " Phat's that, now ? Oi'm to be afther a foine pictoor ay mesilf an' yez ' don't charge me a cint? Be me sowl, yez must be makin' money fasther than yez can spend it." - " Not at present, but it's a plan we have for advertising our work." r " Shure, you'll make no advhertoise* ' mint ay me, sor. I'll not be hung up in th' windys loike one ay thim kickin' .hussies wid only th' breath ay *yer two han's far a dries. Oi'm a dacent woman, ; 'eor.". < " You misunderstand me. You -can show our work -to others and -they will catronize us."
" Oh ho, an' it's a great scheme "yez has. Some ay thirn will be afther payin' far ray pictoor, thin. Coom in, sor, »n' I'll see what Oi can do wid yez." When the mistress returned that evening she soon had Molly on the carpet and went at her thus : " What in the world has, been going on here, Molly, since I left ? Just look at these parlours. Curtains torn, furniture banged, the walls dented and you so lama that you can scarcely wait." " Shure, mum, Oi heard the masther tell yez that ef any moor ay thim thavin' pictoor spalpeens sthopped here far to kick thim out; Yez was not at home mum, an' phen Oi got th' man in yez would have died far laughin' to see me kick 'im out agin. -> It's from misain' 'in one kick that Oi'm lame, mum."
She (regretfully referring to the microbe question) : "And now they tell us kissing must go." He (joyfully)':. I ', Then here goes I"
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 22, 22 October 1898, Page 7
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319SHE MISSED ONE KICK Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 22, 22 October 1898, Page 7
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