DOMESTIC VIEWS.
The small boy was regaling a visitor with the family album: "Who is this one?" asked the victim as he began the photographic volume. " Oh, that's gramp'an'here's gram' rite acrost the leaf." "And this pretty lady?" "That's chromo's Ant Suke; she's a terror." ' An' that feller that looks as ef he didn't know beans is nunkoy." " Who are the two taken together ?" " That's pop an' mam, only they ain't fitin' there." "And this sweet child?" "That's me when I was a kid. An' that's pop's first wife, that dido ; an' that's anuther liunkey. Say, he don't look like a bird, does he ? Pop says he's a real old Kallus bird an' this—" The entrance of the family prevented further disclosures.—Merchant Traveller.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2289, 12 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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123DOMESTIC VIEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2289, 12 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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