AN AMUSING MISTAKE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1170, 9 October 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN AMUSING MISTAKE.

One morning early, not long ago, a policeman and a Taff t ale Bailway official, hearing screams proceeding from a certain house in Newtown. Cardiff, proceeded there with all despatch, and found a woman standing at the door evidently in great distress. Addressing the railway man, she said, “ You know mv huspand, don t yon ? “ Well," she rejoined, “ that's not him upstairs." At'her request the two men proceeded to her bedroom, and there they had a view of the intruder, who was sleeping soundly in the bed which had just been vacated bv the astonished woman. Neither of the spectators were able to recognise the sleeper. Then the officer of law awoke him, and the intruder, rubbing his eyes, asked what was the matter, addressing the woman by name. He was asked by the man what he meant by being there, and he. in turn, asserted that he had more right to be there than his interlocutors, seeing that he was in his own bedroom, and that the lady was his own wife. In course of conversation he succeeded in convincing the railway man that he was a workman engaged on the same line as himself, and the secret of his wife s mistake was then madcapparent. The husband had left on the previous day with a busby* beard and whiskers. She did not expect him back that night, but lie came in quietly* and got- into bed. But he had shaved off his hirsute appendages, and when his wife next saw him by* her side she mistook him for a stranger. His identity having once been satisfactorily established, she politely thanked her visitors for their services, and showed them the door.