DOCKING THE CHIEF.
'An editor ordered a pair of trousers from his tailor. On trying them on they proved to be several inches too long. It being late on Saturday night, the tailor's shop was closed, and the editor took the trousers to his wife and asked her to cut them off and. hem them over. The good lady, whose dinner had perhaps disagreed with her, brusquely refused. The same result followed an application to the wife's sister and the eldest daughter.
But before bedtime the wife, relenting, took tHe pants, and cutting six inches from the legs, hemmed them up nicely, and returned them to the closet.
Half an hour later her daughter taken with compunction for her unfilial conduct, took the trousers, cutting off six inches, hemmed, and replaced them. Finally the sister-in-law felt the pangs of conscience, and she, too, performed an additional surgical operation on the garment. When the editor appeared at breakfast on Sunday the family thought a Highland chieftain had arrived.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 45, 22 February 1901, Page 2
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