She Killed the Burglar

Southland Times, Issue 11296, 31 October 1889, Page 3

She Killed the Burglar

The following amusing story is told by a man who attempted to play a practical joke, bnt was thwarted in a very unexpected way. He says ; — 'l am very particular about fastening the doors and windows of my house. I do not intend to leave them open at nigkt &B in invitation to burglars to enter. You see I waß robbed by doing that, and I never mean to be again ; ao when I go to bed I like to be sure that every door and window is securely fastened, La§t winter my wife engaged a strapping young country girl, and the new comer was very careless nbout ihe doors »t night. On one or two occasions I came downstairs to find * window up or the back door unlocked, I cautioned her, but it did no good. 1 therefore determined to frighten her. I put on false whiskers, and one night about eleven o'clock I crept down the back stairs to the kitchen, where Bbc was, She had turned down the gas, and was in her chair by the fire sound aaleep, as I could tell by her breathing ; but the moment I struck a match she woke.- I expected a great yelling and icreaming, but Bothicg of that sort took place. She bonnced out of her seat with a ' You villain I' on her lipsj seized a chair by the back, and before I had made a move sbe hit me over the kead, forcing me to my knees. I tried to get up, tried to explain who I was, but in vaiu. Before I could get out of the room she struck me again ; and it was only after I had tumbled up the back stairs that she gave the alarm. Then she came up to my room rapped at the door, and cooly announced : ' Mr Dasb, please get up. I've killed a burglar!'