A SHREWD LITTLE WIFE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 January 1924, Page 7

A SHREWD LITTLE WIFE.

AND HER HOLIDAY £10 NOTE.

A Masterton residenV related an incident that occurred recently to a Wellington friend, and which, shows that things are not always what they seem (says the Wairarapa Daily Times). A Wellington lady was going on a trip and to cover her immediate expenses was given a £10 note by her husband. On the train she met another lady, and a conversation sprang up. "When the ladies left the train tor refreshments, the Wellington lady discovered that the £10 was missing from her handbag. She immediately suspected the other woman. Returning.quietly to the carriage, she opened the'other lady's handbag, took out a £10 note, and when the other lady returned she resumed the conversation, and bade her farewell at the journey's end, feeeling quite elated at the way in which she had recovered her money. Upon returning home, she related the incident to her husband with great glee, impressing upon him what a shrewd little wife he had, and how she had got her £10 back. "Yes, my dear, that would be all right, only you happen to have left your £10 note on the dressing table before you went away!" The Wellington lady, who is absolutely honest, is now trying to discover the whereabouts of her train comnanion whom she beat i for the £10 note."