CUTTING IT SHORT.
The owner of a number of houses was never at a loss for an answer, or a remedy, when faced with a complaint, about one of his houses. One day a tenant came to him In a fiery temper. "hook here," he snapped, “you’ve pot to do somethin# about my place. ! don't pay rent to live In a pigsty. Why, there's even grass coming through the floorboards In the din-ing-room. "We’ll soon settle that," said the landlord, after a while. “I’ll send a man around with a lawn-mower right away.’’
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 16 (Supplement)
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93CUTTING IT SHORT. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 16 (Supplement)
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