MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
\ woman I'eH off the pier info tiesea, and a fa! man began to rave ami
roar. . -,. , •■ Mv wife! 0!i. save my dear wile. A reward of live pounds to the man who will save my wife from a watery grave!" , \ fisherman leaped in and saved too woman. Then 1:" modestly demanded the promised lived from the fat man. But the fat man hit his lip and said : - - I'm sorry, my dear fellow, but there has been some mistake. Yut see. it wasn't my wife you saved at ~H. h was my mother-in-law. I mixed the two ladies up in the ionfusion of the moment." The fisherman took out his puree.
••'That's iust my luck," ho said Ifow rum-ii do 1 owe you?"'
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 187, 30 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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124MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 187, 30 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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