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, ' Will you- guarantee,!' asked Miss Primrose, ' that this parrot wilb not— er use profane language V 1 Really, ma/dame,' expostulated the urbane dealer, 1 you cannot expecb me to do that, knowing nothing, of the sort of family 1 am. selling it to.'
' These are hard lines,' said the tourtst wearily, as he paused to look at the landscape. ' Here I've climbed to the top of this mountain and forgot to bring my glasses with me.' , . ; l 'That's all right, 1 said the guide.. ' I'd just as soon drink from the bottle.'
Not long ago Lydia Jiad a birthday, and discovered that she is the youngest of her class at school. " How does it come ? ' she asked her grandmother that evening, ' that all the other little girls of my age arc nine or ten and I'm only eight ?'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 10 January 1907, Page 38
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141ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 10 January 1907, Page 38
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