KNEW WHERE IT WAS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 9 May 1907, Page 37

KNEW WHERE IT WAS

A lady left her home for the annual visit to her mother. Before her departure she told her husband that if he wanted anything he could not easily -find he was to write to her for directions. ' Don't turn the boniise upside down, as you generally do, ' she said. ' I wlill answer at once, and tell you just where it is. 1 Soon after his wife's departure a neighbor came in to borrow a pattern of a dress,. The husband wrote, as he had been requested to do. This was the answer by return :— ' You will find it banging on the wall by- the garret stairs, or- in the box on top of the sewing-ma-chine in Ellen's room— the green box, or the re;d one, I forget which. Perhaps, though, it is on the top sbelf in the cupboard in our room— left-hand side if I remember correctly, bu,t look on the other side too. If not there it is in the bottom drawer of the bureau in the hall. That is where I keep my patterns, and don t untie all the bundles. It is among them * somewhere,. Perhaps it is in the second drawer. It is somewhere upstairs, any way, so don't rummage downstairs. P.S.-Now I come to think of it, I may have lent »it to my sister Ann !'