VANISHING TRICK.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 233, 8 December 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

VANISHING TRICK.

Into the grocer's shop walked an ano.vnt lady with a. slow and halting tread, and carrying on her arm a basket containing a large earthenware pot with a lidPlacing the basket on the counter, she made various purchases, which she carefully put in the pot and had her bill made out.

"By the way,'' she said, Tiefore paying tins, "do you mind keeping this pot with the purchases in it until I come back and pay for them, as I have to buy other things some distance off and it will be more convenient for me to leave the things here till later?" This request was willingly acceded to, and, lifting the pot carefully >nt of the. basket, the old dame placed it, with an effort, in a corner; then, pmting her basket on her arm, left the shop. Hours went by< (fay ripened into evening, and evening gave way -n night, but the old womon did not return.

Atl as! the proprietor thought of examining the earthenware pot to see H by any chance it had its owner's addross upon it, and great was his astonishment, not untinged with dismay. to find that it posseted no bottom! . Nowadays that shopkeeper is very 'suspicions of pots in baskets.