An Unfortunate Mistake.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 247, 17 October 1891, Page 3 (Supplement)

An Unfortunate Mistake.

A laughable bub rather embarrassing case of misbaken identity occurred the other day in a large draper's' shop. A gentleman who is a little too fond of joking entered the shop for the purpose of meeting hia wife at a certain counter. Sure enough, there stood a lady dressed, to his eye at least, jusb like the woman he was after. Her back was turned, and no one waa near her ; so he quietly approached, took her by the arm, and said, in a voice of simulated severity: ' Well, here you are, spending my money as usual, eh ?' Tho_ face turned quickly toward him was nob hia wife's—ib was thab of an acrid, angry, keen-eyed woman of aboub fifby years,, who atbracbed the attention of everybody in that parb of the shop by saying, in a loud, shrill voice: * No, 1 ain't spending your money, or no other man's money, and I'll ' ' I beg your pardon, madam,' cried the confused gentleman. »I supposed you were my wife, and ' ' Well, I jusb ain't you wife, nor no other man's wife, thank fortune, to be jawed at) every time I buy a yard of ribbon ! I piby your wife if you go about Bhaking her like you did me. If I was her I'd ' The chagrined joker waited to hear no more, but made his way oub of the shop amid the titters and sly chuckles of those who had witnessed his confusion.