AN AMUSING MISTAKE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1013, 5 October 1882, Page 3

AN AMUSING MISTAKE.

One mi'ining early, not long ago, a policeman and a Talf Vale railway official, licai ing screams proceeding from a certain house in Newtown, Cardiff, proceeded there with all despatch, and found a woman standing at the door evidently in great distress. Addressing the railway man, she said, ‘ You know my husband, don’t you ?’ ‘ Yes/ lie replied. ‘ Well,’she rejoined, ‘that’s not him upstairs.’ At her request the two men proceeded to her bedroom, and there they had a view of the intruder, who was sleeping soundly m the be d winch had just been vacate! by the as touished woman. Neither of the spectators were able to recognise the sleeper, 'J hen the officer of the law awoke him, and the intruder, rubbing his eyes, ashed what was the matter, addressing the woman by name. He was asked by the man what he meant by being there, and be, in turn, assorted that be had more right to be there than his interlocutors, seeing that he was in his own bedroom and that the lady was his own wife. In course of conversation he succeeded in convincing the railway man that he was a workman engaged on the same line as himself, and the secret of his wife’s mistake was then made apparent. The husband had left her on the previous day with a bushy beard and whiskers. She did not expect him back that night, but be came in quietly and got into bed. But he had shaved off his hirsute appendages, and when his wife next saw him by her side she mistook him for a stranger. His identity having been satisfactorily established she politely thanked her visitors for their services and showed them the door.