BURDETTE'S COU NSEL.
My daughter, when you nob, that tho man who wauts to marry you U ju»p too awfully anxious to learn whether, you can bako a loaf of bread, or do ; up ft shirt with Chinese dexterity, before -you ; close the negotiations, do you juifc fly round and ascertain whether that man it either willing or able to earn enough flour to make a buscuit, and if he has paid for the shirt he wants you to waah. Nine tinjss out of ten, daughter, the man that only wants to marry a housekeeper! can be kept more economically in the workbouie than he can in your father's houve, ,;
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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110BURDETTE'S COUNSEL. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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