THE LATEST HUSBAND’S DODGE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 778, 16 March 1877, Page 4

THE LATEST HUSBAND’S DODGE.

0 — It is unfortunate that the following little story, contributed by an amateur Danbury newsman, to the Grey River Argus cannot be conveyed to gentlemen only, but unfortunately for them their wives will see it too, and it will be impossible to “ take them in that way” :—B lodger is a convivial soul, and as convivial souls usually do, he can never contrive to get home until the small hours, but he had hit upon a plan for conciliating the wife of his bosom which would have been efficacious to tliis date, had he kept the secret to himself. His plan was this ; —Arriving home, say at 1 a.m., he would pretend to think that his wife was asleep, and as he divested himself of his garments, would talk to his reflection in the looking glass after the following fashion : —John, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, keeping such ungodly hours, and there’s your dear little wife, the finest woman in the world, been sitting up for you until she had to go to bed, and there she is, the darling, tired out and fast asleep, and you spending your time and your money outside. If you were anyone else I would punch your Lead—l would, you brute! And John slips under the blandets to find a nice warm arm round his neck, and ■not a word of reproach.