WHAT HE WONDERED ABOUT.
• A London meohanic, ' with the intention of enjoying a practical' joke, pasted the figures of two donkeys on the dead wall opposite to his workshop. Under these figures he had written in large letters the words, "When shall we three meet again?" The idea of this, it need hardly be explained, was to presuppose that whoever should stand to read the inscription was the third donkey. He then retired to his shop, from which he could see how titoe bait would take. It was not long until a mam coming by, stopped and* stood gazing in perplexity at the two donkeys and the. inscription. The mechanic • was elated at the manner in which his brilliant joke had worked. H* burst into a fit of loud and hearty laughter, which soon, however, subsided when the man quietly turned round . and scornfully exclaimed, "Bedad, I was all along wondhcrin 1 where the other one was."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7637, 21 February 1903, Page 3
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