An old woman bounced into the Town Hall with a notification that had bean sent to her to the effect that a quarter's rates on some property belonging to her were due. She asserted that she had paid them. A clerk got out the books to prove that she had not, and suggested that she had mode a mistake. She still declared, however, that she had paid. "Hun t you ever make mistakes ?" sho inquired The clerk assured her that he did not, and jokingly added : ." The only mistake I ever made was. when I got married." She looked at him for a moment, and then said : "So : your wife made that mistake !"
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2660, 19 May 1908, Page 7
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