A WRONG CONCLUSION!

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 3

A WRONG CONCLUSION!

>AD JTOl'i; OF REPENTANCE. FIFO AND THE -MUSHROOMS. DUNEDIN, April 9. There is a saying that it does not* pay to jump to conclusions. A. Dun> edin household has recently had a lesson in the truth of this .which is not. without its humorous side. On the day in question mushrooms were to ho an item in the evening meal. The family clog, it appears, that day ssffered a per version of appetite, and some annoyance was felt when a member of the household discovered that Uiclo had upset the mushroom basket and was busy consuming as many mushrooms as T ho time at his disposal would allow. Tho mushrooms were rescued and they duly appeared on the table, where •he family consumed them with real relish. Their consternation ran be- judged when the maid came rushing into the | room to exclaim breathlessly; "Oh .Miss —. —. Fide is dead Upon tho group around the table there fell a sickly fear; for a moment everyone seemed paralysed bv the dread import of the fatality, and then there was a rush for the telephone. A doctor was on the scene within a few minutes and hn, learn'ing the nature of the disaster. Ordered the whole family to hospital, whore they could 1r- treated more quickly for the effects of poisoning,. Ati f!he ho.'ip;tal pumps worked feverishly, and. the worst of Die danger apparently y ver. tho family, decidedly shaken with their experience, returned home. They had not been long inside tho house when the maid once again entered the room, her face this time wreathed in smiles. "Oil. Miss ——she Said, Tido ,isn t dead after all. The cay that ran over him didn’t break his back!”•