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She Obeyed Orders

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Day
28
Month
May
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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They had been discussing that everlasting seivant problem, which can always be depended upon to furnish a topic for conversation when three or four woruen are gathered togetlier. Each bad told of her experience with her "help," wben oue of thera said: "JMy new houseniaid is the greenest girl yon ever saw iu your life. Her ignorance is a perpetual source of wonder to me. The day after I got her I went out shopping and told her if any one called during ruy absence to say I was out and ask his name. These seemed simple instructions, but I thought she would need them. "When I retnrned, I asked if anybody had called. " 'Yes, mum; they did,' she replied. " 'VVho were they?' " 'They wouldn't teil their names, ' she answered. "'Wouldn't teil their names!' I exclaimed in surprise. "'Yes, mum; but I think one of them said "bananas" and the other "rags. " ' "I demanded further particulars. " 'I tried to teil them you was out and ask their names. You hadn't been gone very long when one of them cama It was the man who called "bananas." I remembered what you said, mum, and I went after him and told him you was out. He asked me if I wanted any bananas, and I told him no; that you was out, and asked what was his name. But he wouldn't teil me. It was the same with the other person who called. He called "rags" and only laughed at

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Ann Arbor Argus
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