COMEDY OF A KEY.
FITTING OF TWO DOORS. Eleven-thirty p.m., and a dirty night. There was no moon shining over the Chauntsingers estate at Alton, Hampshiro, and Mr. and Mrs. Gates, with their children, had. retired for the night in their cosy little council house. Suddenly a key grated in the lock. Mr. Gates There were footsteps on the stairs. Mrs. Gates jumped out of bed. The bedroom door opened and Mr. Gates leaped at the intruder. There was a swift, brief struggle, and then the intruder managed to gasp out that lie lived in the next block, and bad entered the house thinking it was ws own! All the houses on the estate .1 e alike The moral is, of course, that those who live in council first find their street, or change their locks. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)
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