CONSIDERATE BURGLARS.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XII, Issue 46, 14 April 1910, Page 3

CONSIDERATE BURGLARS.

There had been a number of burglaries in a certain neighbourhood, ■and the conversation at a small whist party turned naturally enough on burglars im general and their lacal performances in particular. Everybody had expressed an opinion except a quiet, elderly gentleman, who was apparently more interested in his -cards than in criminology ; but he was not to 1 be let off so easily. “Doesn’t it make you nervous,” ;somebody asked him, “to think every night when- you go to bed that you may be burglarised before morning?” “Oh, we don’t mind them,” said the elderly gentleman, cheerfully, with a glance across the room at his | wife. ‘“We’re too well used to them, aren’t we, Mary ?” “John,” said his wife, warningly, i “don’t be silly.”

“Silly !” echoed he, and turned to the others. “Now, that’s her jnodesty. Those burglars have been trying to go through our house every night for two weeks. Always get in through the dining-room window, too. But Mary hears them. Yes, sir, no sooner do they get through the window than Mary hears ’em and .wakes me up. Fortunately for us, Maxy is a very light sleeper." v

“But it must be awful to wake up like that !” exclaimed one of the listeners.

“Rather disturbing the first night,” •continued the speaker. '“But not so bad after one gets used to it. All 1 have to do, you know, is to get up and lock the bedroom door, and then the burglars go right back out of the dining-room window. “Very methodical they are, too,” added the elderly gentleman, thought■•fully, “for they always bolt the window after them.”