HOW NORA COAXED THE TIPS.
A group of Avomen was standing in the corridor of an American summer hotel, when an aged scrubwoman started upstair® with a pail of water. Just then a bright-faced buxom Irish chambermaid came up. “This looks purty heavy for the likes of ye,” she said cheerily to the old woman . “Better let me help.” She took up the pail and whisked off up stairs Avith it. “How thoughtful of Nora. 1” “Isn’t she kind?” and similar expressions rose to the lips of the women. The proprietor of the hotel and another man witnessed the incident. “Clever girl, that Nora,” said the hotel man to his companion. “She’s always doing something like that when there are people looking on. She gets more tips thsfn any tivo other girls in tho house. She could afford to pay me for the privilege of working here. Every summer she makes enough to spend the winter in idleness at her old home in Ireland.” _ ;
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2389, 2 January 1909, Page 10 (Supplement)
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164HOW NORA COAXED THE TIPS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2389, 2 January 1909, Page 10 (Supplement)
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