DOUBLY WILLING
'You are pushing me too hard,' said Wu Ting -Fang to a reporter in San Erancisco'^who/.was interviewing him. 'You are" taking advantage of me. ''You are like the Pekin poor relation.
'One day he met 'the head of the family in the street., '"Come and dine with us* to-night," the mandarin : said graciously. . . / - • ; '"Thank you," said the poor relation. "But' wouldn't to-morow night do just as well?" '"Yes, certainly. But where are you dining to-( night?" asked the mandarin, curiously. - -. '" At your house. You see, your estimable^wife was ; good enough to give me to-night's . invitation." '
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 21 January 1909, Page 117
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97DOUBLY WILLING New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 21 January 1909, Page 117
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