STEALING A NEST-EGG.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 116, 2 December 1882, Page 179

STEALING A NEST-EGG.

"The best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft oW." It was so in this instance. A young an in a suburban district had been carefully his shillings and sixpences for a fliristmas blow-out, and in order that the hoard night not come under the argus eye of his ntchful spouse, he planted it in a bird's nest in (tree a little way from the house. The wife also hi a penchant for bird-nesting, and, as ill-luck fould have it, she fell across the plant, and with ifull and exulting heart cleasf &■ out the treasure tore, meanwhile rnaintainmg% discreet silence sith the " old man " as tJ the all. A few Jays afterwards he wentato th'g nest to drop in mother shilling for the festife seafou, when, horror i horrors, he discovered fthafc/the " nest egg " M been stolen. Life haJ^jeithing more worth Iring for, since the prospect of a grand Christ--3^3 booze was gone, so, going back to the house, ) chewed off the heads of nearly a box of atehes before the wife discovered his little |sme. Proper remedies were promptly administered, and when he was out of danger she askec 1 ym. if it was all about the plant in the bird's K3t that he had attempted suicide and swallowed Hatches. A new light dawned upon him over lie missing money, and he uttered some very sulftarous expressions which could scarcely be satched, but whether he recovered his money, sad will yet enjoy his Christmas spree, is not inoTyn.