AUNT
The
STORY.
OUR
of
FENCE.
BETSEY'S
United
the
FINANCIAL
Assets
the
Gardener Guess boys at in my while I was sand heap play the said servant, school," privileged to his David Spellman, young I'd
let
Surplus other
life
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office
in
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Large
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you've of
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it
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William,
your tea-pot lots of Chinese
have
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playthings. ones have a the -young jolly the sand heap, if it is a little It makes me to you ? think
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£10,508,995
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valuation
that
than
larger
of
any
Future
conducted
and
Test of Strength Bonuses.
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of
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Sooiety
the
on
Plan
Mutual
all
;
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belongs
BRANCH: T.
Esq.,
Hooley, S. J.
M.L.A.
Esq.,
Chenhall.
M'DOWELL
JOSEPH
no
31st,
M.L. A., Chairman; Edward F.R.G.S, Johnston, Manager. Special Representative,
Forrest, G. H.
rubbed
world.
PERTH
lad. Master
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Hadn't
&
CO.
let
Jarrah
Timber
Merchants,
and
King
stroked
Aunt
though
she
Perth.
Streets,
OF
STEAM
twenty Mrs. her
Betsey
Mark.
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Betsey,
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when the cows
kindest
it
and
on in her straight lived in the old brown stood in the common it
kept
and and
there
factories and the
shops looked smoke
right settled
down
bushes.
It
meat
pasture,
the
till
good
mostly no of her youngsters and haul her their way,
pull
was
own.
house, where
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Mills and
1899.
Wales.
in her to work Betsey garden What a back of the house. comfort she took of fixing up sight vines and her' her with digging see her now with her trowel. I can and dress with no more sun-bonnet on to it than the woman in furbelows As Noah's Ark. to the head your
now-a-days, hats them
might
on behind do Queen Victoria's
the
as
well
cushion,
a
crown
for
Aunt
ill-mannered
China
Hall,
not
like
to
have
boys gawk through
day she heard
handbills. made
me
She
man
the next What a on
one —
other
up 'I.
side and
and
&
notice, Mark.'
it
for
It
he
was
Mark, Marks, on just everywhere
we
—
:
;
and
you Aunt that of
a
National Library of Australia
Fire
to
so
uppish,"
said
But
out,
anyhow
little
cripple
I
am
I
;
Betts
Livingston
Julia
since.
Creek years,
many's
the
day is
sorry
the
doctor
want
him
to
lives I'm
in
the
and
he the
that
main are
see
a
alley sorry com
don't he come Aunt Betsey
Why "
?
and
get
said
rigidly. " are Bless feet you, ma'am, -his than no more use for walking those to there. I tassels curtains your down know were not set so you as to sudden in the lap of affluence the heart of you." At once knock all the old cobbler's the nettle left stings as he and the soft heart spoke voice, " hurt It don't feelin's said, anybody's who has for an old like me, codger been stum pin' it about the world for a place fifty years and been in many
(All
Brigade
&
PLUMBERS
he'd
FITTINGS,
laid
Sizes), Telephone
Appliances.
it
Windmills;
Alston's
358.
SMITH,
BARRACK BY
SPECIAL TO
above
The
HIS
business
you
STREET,
PERTH.
fe&S"
APPOINTMENT
EXCELLENCY
will
in
THE
future
be
The
Harness,
stock
and
is
being. materially
Saddlers'
carried
on
under a,
and
reduced,
Sundries
will
occupy of as lines and
a
be
offered
at
can
rely
conducted For
still Smith will on served, being
foot, bed
to
it
the
and
style
worth
fully L15,000 EXAOTL Y
on
price
improved lists,
prominent
position
detail. in old, every at reduced prices.
the
is
pretty go to Betsey.
to
pinned
just those
a pin through, rough." see the boy,"
his the
butterflies I
tell
said
and I went did, along to In it. were basket. jellies carry and sponge cake, a nosegay of helio After we and a flesh-brush. trope, sent she me back to get a started
she the
title
of
nn
in The
little
a
to out be of, good, but when fellow who never to any number eight
kept
for
than have him
higher
So
HALF
of
Saddlery, USUAL
THE
PRICES. Mr.
to
comes
wore
"I'll Aunt
GOVERNOR.
cnvnrrpTjr
have back
better his
on
one like of doctor has stuck
SADDLER,
nnninprp
so
was so Betsey aggravated, her that a scamp I did not tell hid up in a little was Zaccheus
be
Samarcand,
it
you
the
know.
&
Melbourne;
Son, Ltd.,
London,
of and
Perth.
Street,
FITTINGS
TUBES
GIRDERS
PIONEER
the
impudence,
&
Hay
BRASS
ROBERT
boys. he put signed
Mark,
I
Mark for
but
scribbled
was
Danks & Sons',
John
Merryweather
the doctor till Post no Bills,' The next morning '
boards.
ROLLED for
Agents
fence
on
at
grammar-book
GALVANISED STEEL
large assortment and Hotelkeepers at great reductions
LONDON.
351
REQUISITES,
posters
the
Perth, A
ST.UBBS,
Importers, IRONMONGERY,
again.
bill
Betsey
nuts
&
and
GENERAL
paste,
off,
at
up
Aunt
was
it
them
were
kept
we
the
whole on the
scrub
day they war
worried
She
pattering, a bucket of her papering
—
long
with brush
a a
IMPORTERS,
SYDNEY.
DRAKE Ironmongers
and
a
Mrs.
them
Co.,
Murray-st.,
236-238,
MELBOURNE.
BUILDERS'
and with
EARTHENWARE,
Creek
1
garden.
saw
&
the assorted stocks in W. A. and best holding largest for Store suitable Earthenware, and Fancy Goods China, Glass, hand. Goods offered Private now Families on being always make for heavy shipments now room coming forward.
as she was a at her if palings put up show, so she made the doctor a high close fence at the back of the in and her mind she enjoyed yard,
One
&
GLASS,
CHINA,
as
the
her
DYNON
Duck
;
Perth.
Are
did
Betsey
KNAPP,
Arcade,
to
got whooping whoops like a Madoc warrior; cough so he can't him now. If I play with can't I won't else, give him anything him the it give whooping-cough would shake him to pieces, poor soul. I wish, ma'am, you'd take him some he is of your sweet-smelling posies, so fond of them."
SPECTACLEMAKERS,
Royal
JOHN
kept be toted
they in the old
AND
want
Aunt Isaac
know Duck you 'Spose has been a town these ten
named
"
sun
Country. the
8
you
in
is
said Dr.
new
repair
firm,
so
customers
department
will
be
cake
of soap.
We went and in a
room
mistress's
china
right
behind
the
about closet
as. we
garden, as big found
'
the
off,
all
OPTICIANS
"
see
daily
pajiers.
. ;
gear
for
&
CLARKE
Master
down
near garden. your for him. My Joe rades. My lad has
for
the
is
needn't
" You Solomon.
:
Sight-Testing
Free
rose
and
Mills."
Aunt at
him
Stump,"
he
Mark,
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
us,
and
Betsey liked
always
the wrong way, in the main.
Mr. If
"
big-chimneyed on
and
first,
Lord
Betsey.
Handicap, Cup, 25,000 atWales Cup,
lived
we
BROOK.
October 21st. 3,000 at 5, run Perth, run November Melbourne 5, 1st, at Flemington. run of November Prince 9th, 5,000 at 5. run 26tli, Canning Park, December 5,000 at 5. Canning Cud, at Broken Jan. Silver 10,000 5, run Hill, 2nd, City Handicap, 3rd 1899. Perth January, Cup, 25,000 at 5, run at 26th 1899. 10,000 5, run January, Anniversary Handicap, Newmarket Handicap, run25,000 at 5, run 4th March, 1899. at Easter 1899. 5, Monday, Sydney Cup, 25,000
Proclamation
in
sot a
rii
JL
MONSTER
woman
was
m
JL ii.
107
called
Everybody
particular,
But She had
to
so
little
a
way.
own
the
'
—
lived, years with
DRAKE'S
SAWMILLS,
467.
and boy, for Doctor and
man
I
see,
were
:
Telephone
(C/o You
all.
it
bills
the One into day he came big hall where Aunt Betsey was knitting. words were His first " Where's lord and master, your Mrs. Mark ?"
The
PROPRIETORS
at
everybody
up
Wellington
mistress of the house appear the then at the back door, ing just hat as took off his if old man to her in his small include audience, and, to a tree, proceeded leaning against spin one of his old time yarns.
at the
snickering but out,
—
time in bother of Aunt
fence."
Betsey's
the
on
of the The business to the Policy-holders.
mam-
want
(December
was All thicker Aunt than ever. couldn't Betsey in what she could take any pleasure see on one side of the fence for think see on the ing of what she couldn't other side.What with watching those bill-daubers and warning and after I had hardly them, running care time to take of the doctor's in horse. We were such an awful stew, and I kept wishing something that would turn mistress up my take the matter so to heart. wouldn't the cobbler. Solomon Stump was see a thistle-ball, with Did you ever the which prickers sticking every was while the heart inside of way, the softest down. That's him crabbed kind in. He riled outside,
tree
Society
States. Surplus
Guarantee
master. T But moth cave, spoiled,"
POSITION
£49,349,231
-
liabilities
over
.
"
Assurance
Life
Equitable
Jemmy
Price.
His
face
was
very
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