SHAVED BY A MADMAN.
The following strange story is told regarding Sir Douglas Straight, who has just retired from the editorship of the l'all Mall (iazetlv. lie went into a shop to be shaved. As he. sat in the chair he was much surprised to sec that the lady in the outer shop kept looking at hhi'i anxiously through the glass panel of the door.' He could not understand her behaviour at all until he got outside, when a policeman came up to lli'll and said, "I am glad to ilml you've come out all right, sir." "Why?" exclainvcd Sir Douglas, in surprise. "What's the matter ? Is there anything wrong inside?" ''Well, you see," returned the policeman, "the fact is, sir, that the barber came out of n lunatic asylum only last week, and his relatives arc considering whether they will have to send him back again!"'
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 6
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147SHAVED BY A MADMAN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 6
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