It Worked Wrongly.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 April 1910, Page 4

It Worked Wrongly.

Mr Turveytop lias, up till very recently, considered himself quite clever, and nothing so pleases liirn :i.s to get the best of some unsuspecting person. For a long time his wife hiicl been in need of n now muff, and after hinting to .her lord that her happiness would, never be complete till she owned a new muff he at last decided to gratify her desire. So he went to the shop and picked out a couple, one of whichwas cheap and the other very expensive. Upon these he changed the price tickets, putting the cheap price mark 041 the expensive muff, and then took them home. For a long time the good wife pondered, and at last said— "Now, deat', the expensive muff is a beauty, and it is really very good of you to allow me my choice, but really I don't think we can afford the expensive one; and, besides T think the cheap one is more stylisih, too. Why, dear, what is the matter? Are you ill?" But "dear" had fled into the night, where alone aiul unseen; he could kick himself.