HIS HONEST OPINION.
About ten o'clock the other forenoon a man got off the ferry boat looking as if he expected to be grabbed by some one in waiting. No one troubled him, however, and after hanging around for a while he called a citizen aside and said : "Stranger, I want to ask your candid opinion about a matter. " All right—go ahead." "Suppose that you were my wife ?" " Yes." " And that I should come home looking just as I do now ?" "Yes." "What would be your strongest impression? Give me your honest opinion." Tho citizen thus appealed to turned the man around, looked into his eyes, snuffed of his breath, and stood back and said: " Stranger, is your wife a lunatic or a fool ?" " No, sir." " Then you'd better wait at least ten hours before you go home, for you've been on a throe days' drunk and she'll spot you in a minute ! I've gone home looking fifty per cent, better than you do, and had whole handfuls of hair pulled out of my head before I could get my overooat off." " I shall ever remember this favour—indeed I shall!" exclaimed the stranger, and he started up the wharf to look for some seoluded spot in which to kill time and get the drunk out of his looks.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2177, 16 February 1881, Page 4
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218HIS HONEST OPINION. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2177, 16 February 1881, Page 4
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