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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 1, 17 June 1890, Page 2

The finest piece of servant-gallism on record occurred in a Wellington household the other day. For sometime the mistress of the house in question bad had reason to feel aggrieved that her stock of tumblers was steadily lessenicg in number owning to breakages. Now, these breakages were of a peculiar character. The tumblers in question used simply to fall into two parts the fractn re bein; a perfectly c'ean one and suegestiveof the glass having bren intentionally cut. Knquiries from ihe hand- maiden empl >jed by the family elicited no solution of the mystpry, but eventually this young person hit upon a possible explanation thereof, "I think, Mrs ," she sad (it is noticeable in this connection thut there are no, mis» tresses" in New Zealand) "I have found out how these tumblers came to break," and then jih£ proceeded' to deoicnstrare how she polished the insides of the glasses in the usual manner by inserting a hand around which a cloth was wrapped dexterously turning cloth and glass until cleanliness and brightness were effected, "and,"'she added, "in doing this I mast have cut the glass with my diamond ring !— Wellington. Press."