A PAKISTAN COMEDY.
POLICE AND A REVELLER.
DELIVERED TO WRONG HOME
LONDON. June 26.
A comedy of piquant, errors was enacted by policemen in the small hours, according to the Paris correspondent oi the Times. They picked up a nocturnal reveller and conducted him i,o an address on an envelope which the inebriate indicated. The porter admitted him, merely grunting, "Encore!" ("Again 1"). The man's wife was not surprised, but reproached the police for bringing home her husband drunk. "He might as well have spent the night at the police station 1" she remarked. The police bundled him into the room, where ae retired to bed. On awaking in the morning the wosnan was horrified to discover that the man was not her husband, but a stranger. She indignantly expostulated with the police, pointing but the compromising situation which would have arisen if her husband had returned. The police reassured her by intimating that) her husband had been arrested over-night for being drunk, and was stili in the lock-up,.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18135, 6 July 1922, Page 7
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169A PAKISTAN COMEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18135, 6 July 1922, Page 7
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