GOING CHEAP.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3997, 22 November 1918, Page 4

GOING CHEAP.

Some time ago a man was awaken.:;! in the night to find his wife weeping uncontrollably. "My. darling I he exclaimed, "what is the matter?" "A dream!" she gasped. "1 nave had such a horrible dream." Her husband begged her to tell it to him, in order that he might comfort her. After long persuasion sho was induced to say this:— "I thought I was walking down tin street, and I came to a warehouse where there was a large placard, 'Husbands for sale.' . You could get beautiful ones for fifteen hundred pounds, or even for twelve hundred, and very nice looking ones for as low as a hundred." The husband asked innocently: ' "Did you see any that looked like me?" The sobs became strangling. - "Dozens of them," gasped the wife, "done up in bunches like asparagus, and sold for ten shillings a bunch."