A FEMALE PRANK.

Temuka Leader, Issue 351, 10 February 1881, Page 3

A FEMALE PRANK.

When a woman puts three herrings in WPter over night in a dish whose sides are eight inches high, and leaves the pan on the stairs, she has accomplished her mission and should go hence. This is what a Bond-st-reeet woman did last night : filled the dish at the pump, and then left it on the steps while she went into the next house to see how main buttons would be required to go down the fnpt.of a redingote. And a mighty impcf taut thing that was, to be sure ?" Her husband was tearing through the house, in search of a handkerchief, and not finding it, of course. He rushed out of the house into the yard, wondering where on earth,'that woman could be.' He then started clown the steps without seeing the pan or even dreaming that anyone could be po idiotic as to leave it there. Of course he stepped on it : or. at least such is the supposition, as the neighbours who were brought out by the crash that followed saw a horrified man and three very demoralised herrings shooting acnaes the garden, and smashing down th&j shrubbery. And he was a nice sight, was that unhappy man when they gpt him on his feet. There wasn't a dry thread on him, and his hair was full of fish ; one of his shoulders was out of joint ; his coat was split the •whole length down ; and he appeared' to be out of his head. He was carried into the house by some of the men, while others went for a doctor ; while sixteen women assembled in the front room,-and conversed in whispers about the inscrutable ways of Providence, BDd what a warning this was to people who never noticed where they were going.