AN AWFUL SELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1260, 23 April 1886, Page 3

AN AWFUL SELL.

That it is possible even for womanly wit to overreach itself has been made manifest by the painful predicament in which a lady residing in a large Midland town finds herself. In a leading shop of the town she was enchanted by a beautiful camel’s hair shawl. The price was L4o—more than she could afford, and more than she could ask her husband for. The desire for possession was irresistible, and so she plotted in this wise Out of her pin money she had a surplus of L2O. This she would pay to the draper “on account” if he would call on her husband in a promiscuous way, show him the shawl, and induce him to buy it for L2O, which in efiber, would make forty. The smiling salesman obsequiously consented. The husband was called on, the shawl was sold, and the plot worked out satisfactorily so far\ Now for the denouem nt. Walking in the principal street of the town the intriguing wife saw the very shawl in which her L2O and her bus aud’s L2O were invested on the hack of another ladv. The faithless husband

had unconsciously retaliated on his spouse’s trickery and at the same time exposed his errant affections by purchasing the “bargain” for another lady And the injured wife has no remedy save to nurse in secret a sweet revenge which will by-and-by explode.