A Practical Joke by Telp-jlioiie

Otago Witness, Issue 2626, 13 July 1904, Page 85

A Practical Joke by Telp-jlioiie-

The- telephone boll in a residence, buzzed a few ev-enings ago, and a young woman rushed to the instrument, thinking that one of her admirers had called her up. "Is this 8-0-0-8?" demanded a * oice. "Yes," she replied. "Wo aro testing the wire," announced the voice. "Will you please draw a long breath and say very plainly, 'I will be good'?" " I-will-be-good," she repeated. " Little slower, please, and a little inoro distinctly now." '•I — will — be — good," answered tho young woman, trying her best. "No; that's not right at all," criticised the \.o'ce. "Try again — talk .still more distinctly." "I can't."

"You must," declared the iocp. '" Yfd mu-st fix the wiie. Nc-r fiiabd an extia effort and say it again." '" I — wil 1 - — be — good." "Now, again, please." " I— WILL— BE— GOOD," rii© efeoiit«d again. "You will, will you? Well. I'm glad. You weren't a bit good to mo the la-^t tnuo I ca'led," mocked thd aoicc as the connection was broken.

Tho young lady doe-nt know y<'t which one of her adnmets p'ajed the joke on h< r. If she tlocs kam, aiic *<ij thao will Lo

room for one moie on her list of a\ailabie men.