LOST HIS MOTHER IN-LAW
The'other day, over at Alarneda baths, a timid and retiring-looking man waited until the superintendaut was disengaged, and then said to him t > " I do hate to give any one trouble, but have you a long stick or pole of any kind you could lend me ? " : " No, sir ; I told you so ten minutes ago," snapped the overdriven official. " So you did," replied the man ; '■ but 1 thought I'd just ask once more. I guess, now, I've done my duty in- the matter. Don't you think so ■?" -* "'What matter.? " 'What on earth are you talking, about?" - - , - -- - "Why you see, my mother-in-law dived off down there at the deep, end about half an hour ago, and as shehas'nt come up-yet I thought I'd like to tell my wife that I'had sorter jabbed "round pn the bottom for, her awhile anyway, but if I s can't, whyj X suppose I can't j tv' ; _j. ; - '?"W ', ' __-_
that all.'* "And^pksively' Writing' her address on a tag to be tied "to" the old lady when she came up,- the conscien= - * tious man treated the proprietor to beer and walked' thoughtfully ' away. — American paper.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 76, 30 March 1880, Page 4
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