A LUNATIC’S JOKE.
The superintendent of an insane asylum in France, while passing through the wards recently, noticed a man of very inoffensive appearance sobbing in his bed like a child. “My poor friend, what is the matter?” inquired the physician. “Ah, sir,” said the lunatic, “my next neighbor has played me a sad txick. He concealed my knife, and I have been looking for it two hours without being able to find it.” Then ho added, with a smile childish and bland, “But I will play him a line trick in return.” “That’s all right,” said the superintendent, consolingly patting him on the shoulders as he passed on. Two days later the Superintendent chanced to walk through the same room early in the morning. His insane friend stopped him and said, “ I have found my knife again, and have played that trick on my comrade as I told you I should do.” How is that ? ” “ While he was asleep, I hid bis head.” “This man is very crazy,” thought the Superintendent; then he asked, “And what did you do with it then ? ” “I put it in the linen closet; but you need not tell him,” was the answer. The physician walked mechanically to the closet, opened the door, and looked in. The head of the lunatic’s comrade was there.
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Evening Star, Issue 4030, 26 January 1876, Page 3
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220A LUNATIC’S JOKE. Evening Star, Issue 4030, 26 January 1876, Page 3
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