THE MAN WHO LAUGHED.
Several men were making purchases jn mi avenue store the other day, when 0 man' who had looked out of the window for some time turned and said :
'jWell, thutsabad case." "What is it?" inquired two or three at once.
"Well, I don't know who is Hie husband of this woman out here in the waggon, hut if I were he I'd go across the street and smash that fellow's head."
"Why?" '•' Why, because he has been working like a beaver for the last half hour to get up a flirtation with her." At this one of the men began to phuckle, Then the chuckle van into a lajigh, and fiimlly he had to sit down, " What's t]ip matter with you!" was
asked, (( Why, I'm that woman's husband." (l Are you ? And you arc laughing over the flirtation?"
" I—l can't help it," he said as lie went off in another lit. (i Just think of him flirting and admitting up and down and a-doing the putty when the old woman out there has been stone blind for seven years—ha! ha! ha !"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 926, 16 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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185THE MAN WHO LAUGHED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 926, 16 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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