EDITOR'S WALLET.
The Money Was in the Books.
She bad recently been reading an article on " Household Book-keeping," and was fully decided \hat the only way to run a house economically was to keep a set of books, so she made all the necessary purchases, including a bottle of red ink, and started.
It was a month later that her husband asked her how she was getting along. •^Splendidly," she replied. "The system is a success, then ? " " Yes, indeed. Why, I'm Ll4 in pocket already." " Fourteen pounds 1 " he exclaimed. " You'll be rich before long. Have you staited a bank account 1 " 11 No— o ; not yet." " What have you done with the money 7 "
" Oh, I haven't got the money, you know. That's only what the books show. But just think of Ll4 saved." " Urn, yes ; but I don't exactly see " •'Why, don't the books show it 2" "Of course ; but the money 1 What has -become of that 1 "
"I don't exactly "know," she said doubtfnlly. ''I've been thinking of that, and I think we must have been robbed. That's the only way I can explain it. What do you think we had better do about it ? " He puffed his pipe in solemn silence for a moment, and then suggested : "We might stop keeping books. That's easier than complaining to the police."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1987, 24 March 1892, Page 46
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224EDITOR'S WALLET. Otago Witness, Issue 1987, 24 March 1892, Page 46
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