A JOKE WITHOUT A POINT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9115, 7 April 1908, Page 2

A JOKE WITHOUT A POINT.

A most absurd series of mean jokes have been practised during this week on a widow lady in North Carlton (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). On Monday last a hansom cab drove up to the door and the driver said, “I have called to take the bride to Wesley Church Lonsdale street.” “What bride?” asked the widow. “Mrs Pratt her name is,” was the reply. That is my name,” was the reply. ‘ but I am not going to be married,” the lady replied. No fewer than 15 more hansoms drove up afterwards in succession. On Tuesday the game was resumed. An ambulance waggon arrived, and the driver demanded the body of some person who was said to be verv sick in the house. Notwithstanding that by this time it had been thought well to report the matter to”the police, and official enquiries were in consequence being made, on Wednesday Mrs Pratt was simply besieged with callers, who became an object of entertainment to all the neighbours. Four motor cars and two drags arrived, and their drivers all said they had ben sent to take the widow out pleasuring. Two nurses in uniform also called separately to see her through the serious illness she was supposed to be suffering from A coal firm sent around a ponderous dray with two tons of coal that Ms Pratt had not ordered.