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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2610, 18 September 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

Lady (in' chemist’s shop, to small boy): “What am Ito take this medicine in, niv lad r"' Boy: “Yer mouth, ma’am.” A HOUSEHOLD TRAGEDY. With dignified gait and head erect the- Avorr.au descended tho front steps ,a.nd (proceeded slowly down the street. In one bland Hie held' a hat-box, jn tho other a large paper bundle, and in her eyes was the light of battle. The man, ran’ distractedly after her. “Come back!” he cried. “For Heaven’s sake do net (leave me thus.” But the woman turned upon him with ia yttbcaing glance of scorn, and the corners of her mouth dropped co nte mptuousi! y. “You don’t .know what this means to me,” the jnaii. cried, in a frenzy of despair. But in vain.. Her retreating figure had turned the corner, and the Avoman, deaf to liis entreaties., was now out of hearing distance. The man re-enter-; cd the house and threiv theifflselvee upon' '?-■ divan. “What is to become of us?” he groaned. “Our cook lias .gone!”