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Gladys, the Reaper

CHAPTER XXX
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This on his right hand.

On his left, Netta, looking literally like 'a rose in June,' and receiving the very marked attentions of Captain Dancy, on one side, and of Mr Rice Rice, junior, on the other.

He scarcely knew which was most irritating, 'the idioms,' or her affected giggle.

Trite but true is the proverb, 'There is no rose without its thorn;' and Howel was pricked severely by the thorns surrounding the rose of his first step into popularity.
Between the acts, and between the songs, Mrs Griffey went on something in this sort,-- 'Indeet yes, sir! treue for you there.

The Welsh is a splendit language.
My son Howels--there he is to be proving it--do always say so.


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