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New Zealand Mail, Issue 852, 29 June 1888, Page 31

Wo have received from the local agents of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company copies of their trade circulars up to the date of May 19. The Kyneton Observer tells the story of a lady who suffered from an obstinate coin upon the smallest too of her left foot. Finally a friend suggested that if phosphorus was rubbed on the affected toe the corn would succumb. The lady determined to try the remedy, and did so just before retiring the other night, and forgot to tell her liege lord what she had done. At midnight the -husband sudd Only awoke. >‘iid was startled to uoo the Hash of a firefly at the foot of the bed. He reached out in the dark and groped with his hand about the carpet until he felt his own heavy Bhoe. lie seized the weapon, slowly and cautiously- raised himself in bed, and lifting high the sturdy brogan brought it down with a vigorous whack on the innocent firefly. A wild shriek, an avalanche of bedclothes, and the husband lay sprawling in the middle of the floor, while his wffe rolled rodnd the bed, clasping her foot, and moaning with anguish. It was not a firefly. It wao the phosphorusanointed toe.