A WARNING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1629, 6 August 1887, Page 3

A WARNING.

♦ , Beware of the wife who, as Bhe kliies yon good bye, slips a bit of paper into Jrour pocket, saying : •There's a Hit of a few little things rd.llkfr. yen* to get on your way to the train." Pleaee don't overlook any of them. It will take you but a few moment and I want allof them to-day. That's a dear.' Jenkins has such a wife. He takes the little slip, says :— Yes, my dear ; Til get them. He gives himself ten minutes before taking the train for home and thin is the Mat: ..'Six lemons, a dczen oAngcs, yard of blue ribbon, dczen shirt buttons, bottle bt aconite pellets, bunch of celery, bottle iA vanilla extract, pound of almonds, {roand of m*p!e eagar, yard of black Oimbrio, ton cents worth of whalebone, box of glycerine jujubes for baby'B cough, card of hooks and eyes, figs, dater, yard of lace like tample, shoe-strings for Johnnie, paper, of: pins, bolt of blue dress braid And something fur baby.' 1 . He drives home with (wo lemons and an, orange, ; and looks unutterable things when, Jfin Jenkins wy8 s : * ''.«<Sbti didn't hare time to get the other things'? Why, my dear, I could have bought them all m ten minntea.'