SIMPLE STORIES
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HE house was condemned by the ‘" authorities as unsuitable for human habitation, but the man and the woman and their five children were still in it because, the woman said, "They’ve got to find us another place." In the yard there wete two lines with three gars ments hanging to dry in the smoky air, a rickety privy with a canary in a cage hanging on the wall, and a tap which dripped into a leaking bucket. The woman came to the door with a baby in her arms and a yearling crawling behind her. She showed me the house, There was an electric light in the kitchen, and I could see what the range and the floor were like. I did not see into one room, and three children slept in the other. There was another room opposite the kitchen. "This is the wash-house," the woman said. There were no tubs or benches in it and no tap. There was only one thing in it, a chromium and cream shining thing-a new electric washing-machine. (Contributions are invited. Send us somes thing printable and brief, and if we like it, too, and print it, you will receive one guinea (less tax). But 200 words is the limit)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 180, 4 December 1942, Page 5
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210SIMPLE STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 180, 4 December 1942, Page 5
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