THE WRONG SARAH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 5

THE WRONG SARAH.

Miss Sarah Brooke, the clmrming young actress, is the fortunate survivor of an adventure which she will ever look back upon with a shudder first and a smile afterwards (says a writer in a London theatrical journal). I cannot do better than give the story of her alarming experience in her own words: "I was ©ne of a house party some time ago at the place of a friend in the countryi and on the night before we broke up our host gave a dance which was kept up till daybreak. Worn Out. with dancing every dance, I was not long, when I -went upstairs to bed, in getting my head on the pillow; but as soon as I had closed my eyes, a gruff voice quite close to mc said, 'Good-night, nurse!' I was too scared to utter a sound; I could only peep round in the cold grey light of daybreak to see where I had left the door! Then the voice said, *Hullo, Sarah!' I found my own voice now, and protested stiv-ngly that practical jokes could be carried too far, and that this was scandalous. I was just going to arouse the house when, by the increasing light, I saw a parrot's cage on a table not far from my bed. I had been 'put up,' in what was usually the nursery, and the nurse's name was Sarah!"