A SHOT IN THE DARK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 19, 24 January 1916, Page 7

A SHOT IN THE DARK.

Charles Harris ,the society enterier, used to tell a story 'about a "ornishman who slept in the haunted bedroom of an English country house. About midnight he saw what he thought were the gaunt fingers of a ghostly hand at the foot of the bed. He pulled a revolver from under his pillow, took careful aim land fired. As he came to breakfast next morning he was noticed to be limping painfully. “How did you get on?” asked his host. The guest related his experience with the ghostly hand. “And that,” he added, “is how I lost two of my toes.” The story is revived by a happening a house in Evans Street, Balmain, a few night ago, says Sydney “Sun.” A man and his wife were awakened by a cat outside the bedroom window. The husband reached for a boot, and the howling ceased. Two bright spots glistened in the darkness at the foot of the bed. The wife whispered to her husband to make certain to hit the wretched thing. “Sure,” he said, 'as he let fly. The yell that followed wa s human, not feline. The glistening spots disappeared as the occupant of the bed drew up her feet. Whatever may have been the wife’s appreciation of her husband as a marksman she had other things to say regarding his intelligence, and the mental attitude of the male species generally. The astonished hubby then discovered that the supposed cat’s eyes Avere his wife’s protruding toes, two of which had been rubbed with a phosphorescent corn cure-