NOT TO BE FOOLED
A Canadian woman wanted to show her Chinese servant the correct way to announce visitors, and one afternoon went outside her front door, rang the beft, and made the man usher her into the drawing-room. The following afternoon the bell rang, and not hearing him answer it, she went to the door herself. To her surprise he was standing waiting outside. Why, Sing,’ she asked, what are you doinsr here ? ’ • & ‘You foolee me yesterday. I foolee you to-day’ was his reply. J ’
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New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1913, Page 61
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86NOT TO BE FOOLED New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1913, Page 61
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