AMUSING HOAX.

Dunstan Times, Issue 745, 28 July 1876, Page 3

AMUSING HOAX.

A rather amusing incident has boon related to the Independant respecting a fright received by a member of a certain card party not a hundred miles from Sandhurst, quite recently. The games played daring the evening wore many, and of an exciting nature, requiring in the case of the person we refer to the frequent use of stimulants, which in their turn caused him, at a late hour of the night, to suddenly fall asleep. His slumber was not observed until it came to his turn to play. It struck some of the wags at the table that the opportunity was a good one for a joke, and accordingly the lights were extinguished, and they spoke as if playing, shuffling the cards, &c., at the same time rousing the slumberer. When he awoke he yawned, asked whore he was, and hearing his friends all speaking, and apparently continuing the game, jumped up in a fearful state of phrenzy, and in a deeply agitated voice announced that he was blind—suddenly struck blind. Ho continued to pour forth his lamentations until he was stopped by uproarious shouts of laughter from all sides, as one of his friends struck a light and lit the lamp, showing how he had been hoaxed.