Forgot Her Name.

Otago Witness, Issue 2372, 17 August 1899, Page 63

Forgot Her Name.

When an old lawyer, who has had no end of experiences, meetß with one that he declares to be unique, it is sure to be something very much out of the common. " A man ca<ne to my office the other day," relates a solicitor, " to ask me to make out c, deed to his wife for a nice piece of land that he had just purchased for her as a birthday present. He is a shrewd, alert man of the world, had done a good stroke of business in this instance, and wanted the papers just as soon as they could be prepared. Full description was afforded by the abstract, and all went swimmingly till I turned to him and asked his wife's name. " ' Oh, yes, of course. Wife's name. Very necessary, to be sure,' and it was plainly to be seen that h© -was sparr.ing for time while making every effort to bring his memory into play. Ho had a rush of blood to the face, looked sorely troubled, and finally turned his back on me while he looked out of the window, as though relief were to be found there. " ' Wouldn't that beat you,' he exclaimed, as he turned slowly back. ' I'll be hanged if I can recall her name. You se«, they used to call her "Pet" when she was a girl at home, and that was her name with me up to two years after our marriage, when I began calling her " Mother." I couldn't tell you her name if it were a capital offence not to know it. S'pose it wouldn't do to just call her "Pet" in the deed?' "It wouldn't, so he left, and in an hour was back with his wife's full name on a slip of paper." ________