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Press, 29 July 1989, Page 30

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE

An elderly North Canterbury man was lying on a couch reading some novel when the dog barked to announce the arrival at their gate of the Rural mail man. He. immediately took off his glasses, lay them down and wandered down the driveway to their mail box. On returning to the sunporch with the morning paper he lay back on the couch and went to retrieve his glasses from the small table alongside. But they weren’t there. He spent several minutes looking all over the place at last finding the elusive things right there on the couch whereon he had been lying. Happily he lay down again, unfolded

the paper and donned his glasses. But he couldn’t read. His vision was horribly disturbed as though of something he had drank. It worried him. He rose and went out to his wife for sympathy. In front of her he again put on his glasses and again he experienced that awful sensation of distressingly blurred vision. Straight away she saw the cause of his distress and went though to the sunporch and there on the couch where he had just been lying she retrieved one missing lens. Thankfully unbroken and after a little bother she had it back in its proper place. “