Power of Strategy.
Mr Meekly was enjoying the play vastly. •when there entered a. lady with an enormou9 hat. Down in. front of him she plumped, and his view henceforward promised to embrace nothing beyond a yard of ribbon, a dead' bird, and some artificial roses and feathers and things. " Madam," he taid timidly, "would you be so very kind &s to remove your hat?"
But she ignored him. "Was he daunted)? Not so. Bendnig down, he lifted his own hat from the floor and pltced ifc on his TueaA. Instantly there broke forth a hurricane ■of proteste: "Hats off!" "Take off that hat!" "Off v/ith it!" All the theatre seemed to be ■filled with expressions of that one sentiment, and the lady in front nervously pulled ou"; some pins and removed her headgear. Then Mr Meekly removed Bis own, and reflected upon the value of brains in emergencies.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 91
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149Power of Strategy. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 91
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