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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1916, Page 12

A Sydney lady lias been saying some hard things of her l:/jsband. the cause of which is explained "as follows—At Balmain a man and his wife were awakened by a cat outside the bedroom window. The husband reached for a lioot. and the howling .eased. Two nright spots glistened in the darkness at the foot of the bed. The wife whispered to be sure to hit. the wretched thin". ''Sure," he said, and let flv. The yell that followed was HiiSSi, r.;• line. TJiO glisten. .._* .-spots fiisr.jipe.ivf-;; I lie ort-tipant of the bed drew up her Met. 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 were his wife's protruding toes, two of which had been nibbed by a phosphorescent corn cure! EMBARRASSED. " Didn't you feel pretty cheap sitting there with a young and modest girl at such a shocking play?" " I did. She had to explain a good IMIJiV o£ tifi situational"