Absent-minded.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 89

Absent-minded.

. "We once knew a man who was very much absent-minded. He wore eye-glasses j they were the burdev of his life and the bane of the whole family, for he was everlastingly forgetting where he had last laid them down, even though that place might bo the bridge^ of his own nose. Then he would go rooting round the apar+menr, rummaging under papers, into workboxes, mantel ornaments, and general literature. At last his wife suggested that he should buy c quantity and keep a pair in each pocket. He did so. We saw him in a cafe some time after, reading a newspaper. Wo spoke to him. He laid down his journal. When he took it up again he began looking round the table for his glasses, though they were still on his rsoss. lsfot eeeing them, he dived into his pocket and finished cut another pair, and, placing them on his nasal organ, resumed his reading. Be again laid down his paper, again looked for hi* glasses, and for a tnird time, pulling a pair out ol his pocket, straddled them on his ■nose. Finding his vision impaired, and supposing it was dxse to his not having on his helps to read, he began to feel in his pockets for a fourth pair of glosses, and <t»d- not desist from hi© search until we, with all the tact and delicacy at our cojiTpemd, pointed out to him the r^al position ol affairs. Now that is what we coil a good, unqualified absent-mindedness.