TOO MANY COOKS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 46, 10 February 1894, Page 11

TOO MANY COOKS.

A good story is told of what recently ■happened to a pair of trousers. The young man to whom they belonged had purchased them for his -wedding, but on the eve of that -auspicious event he discovered that they were two inches too long. So lie went downstairs to his mother and two sisters and informed them of the calamity. They were busy—just sympathised -with him vaguely, as people occupied are apt to do, but said no more. To all outward impression the affair had not disturbed them much. On the first spare moment, however, that the mother had she went ain stairs, cut two inches off the tiousers, hemmed them, and returned downstairs without being missed. Just as they were sitting down to supp-r the elder sister suddenly remembered John’s request, slipped away quietly, and went and removed another two inches, hemmed as her mother had done, and retuned to the yairty without mentioning what she had done. The party broke up, bedtime

arrived, and now the young-er flew impatiently to remove the difficult}in her brother’s attire, and again the trousers were diminished by two inches.

So the story ends. What became of the bridegroom on the morrow, and whether he bolted in his shortened garments, or stayed and wore an older pair, is all left to the imagination.