AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.
An esteemed and respected fellow clt'zen, bbvß the Auckland "Herald," was lying on the road not far from his reaidenoe, m bo advanced a state of intoxication that he coald noithur walk nor apeak.. Two. men happened to come up, and seeing a well-dressed man m this state, tried to arouse him. The asked him vrhere he lived, end afier ar.z : ng vacantly around, he pointed to a house not far away. By groat exertionß they got him nloug to the houee Indicated, and knocked vigorously at the door. At length there came a lady dressed m white, or, perhaps, to speak more correctly, m her nightdress. Not wishing to intrude upon Any domestic soeno, the two good f?amuritins cimply pushed tholr heiplets charge bang into the lobby, aod quiokly departed. Great was their horror when next morning they found that they had taken the roan to the wrong house, and had shot him m his deplorable condition into the »rms of a chaste amnz m
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1543, 27 April 1887, Page 3
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169AN AWKWARD MISTAKE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1543, 27 April 1887, Page 3
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