AT THE VILLAGE SHOP
She was newly married, and did not know a little bit about either housekeeping or shopping, and she was giving her very first order. The shopman was clever, and was used to all kinds of orders, and could interpret them easily ‘ 1 want two pounds of paralysed sugar,’ she 'began/ ’ Yes m. Anything else?’ ‘ . £ Two tins of condemned milk.’ £ Yes’m.’ . He set down pulverised sugar and condensed ' milk. A bag of fresh salt. Be sure it is fresh;’ Yes m. What next?’ ‘ A pound of desecrated cocoanut.’ He wrote glibly £ Desiccated cocoanut.’ f,. /Nothing ore, ma’am? We have some nice horseradish just in. 1 ‘No,’ she said. It would be of no use to us; we don’t keep a horse.’ ’ i Then the man sat down and fanned himself with a washboard, although the temperature was freezing,
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New Zealand Tablet, 25 May 1911, Page 981
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141AT THE VILLAGE SHOP New Zealand Tablet, 25 May 1911, Page 981
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