SURPRISED.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 4

SURPRISED.

THE LADY AND THE RING

A day or so ago a well-dressed woman, bearing every sign of prosperity, entered a jeweller's shop iv Auckland and requested to be shown some diamond rings—"'something not too expensive." A tray of rings was brought, and the fair caller seemed charmed with a specimen valued at £15. The lady was very awkward with her hands, apparently not knowing what to do with them, which made tho shopkeeper someAvhat suspicious. Resting her head in her hands on the counter in a meditative manner, gazing 'enviously at tho glittering array of jeAvellery, she managed to distract

Ie shopkeeper's attention for the fraction of a second. Then: "If you would put that one on one side for me, I will ca.il for it to-morrow." "With pleasure madam," returned the courteous jeweller, "if you will kindly remove that one from your mouth!" "Madam" gasped and iudignated, but when lie threatened to ring up tho police she disgorged a £15 ring from between a set of pearly teeth. After being warned of the seriousness of her .offence, the lady was allowed to depart, weeping pro- ' f usely. Why did she weep ? Was it for the exposure or for disappointment?

LOOKED FOlt BAD TIME. "Knowing my child was subject to croup and having been unsuccessful with so many things I looked for a bad time when I heard him bark one night," says Mr F. M. Little, Park St. North Fitzroy, Vie. "I gave him Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and he slept till ten o'clock, when I gave him a double dose, and the result was wonderful. He did not wake up again until two o'clock and that was all the trouble I had. The effect of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in removing the phlegm is wonderful."