UNRAVELLING MYSTERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 10

UNRAVELLING MYSTERY.

Uirfbrfrmately lor Jones, Mia 3. Iβ not the most careful of women. In fact, she ia the kind of person who would fill the sugar basin with starch and wonder how tte tea came to taste so curious. The other day siie had been doing some fancy work, and, as usual, not ha-.Vg her workbai&et by her. she just pnt the ball ot silk she h*d been usiag into a tumbler. ■ Jones, was rather later than usual that night, and, as he had been staying overtime, licking stamps for circulars, it will be easily understood tliat he wes thiraty. Ot course, he chose the tumbler with the ball of silk in it to fill with water. It was emptied in two gulps; bet there was something in the taste of the last one which made him think all was not as it should have been. Then he felt a little ticilsng at the back of his throat "That's mysteriocs," he said, placing his linger and thumb inside his mouth. H<s eauglit hold of the end or siik and pulled it. The tickling sensatiou was worse than ever, and Jones's expression as he kept on pulling and accumulating yards of silk was quite ntcful to sec. '"tPtfe! wife!" he crieifl, "send for Dr. Squills this Instant—l'm enrtTeUln , !"