IT PLEASED HER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 7

IT PLEASED HER.

In some of the small town drug stores >n t.he quarry districts of lu- | diiiria yon <san. buy anything from tal- ( cum powdor to dynamite. >ot. Jong ago a small auarry operator drove up to oiiß of -these stores. The man was in Ji dog-oart, and his info was with iiira. Calling to the proprietor of the store, he saicl: — "Jim, bring out that box J bought a while ago!" The package was put into the dogcart at the feet of the man and his wife. The latter eyed the bos suspiciously. _ What's m that package? she asked, with tome asperity. "Now. never ruind, paid the husband; that's not going to hurt yon." .. , The evasion excited the wife* further suspicions. "Ed Spiv ens," she exclaimed, ' that s s. bo.v of dy uan;ite !" j <• Well. what ll jt isr Kflia Ed, cmphnticaMy. "It won't do ;uiy damage j unless it- explodes-." I "Ed Spivens!'' shrilled the wmuan, j " if you think I'm going to ri'lo ?.n ; jv-iles* in a dog-cart with fifty pounds. | or dynamite a£ my feet you're a. bigger j fool'than I thought you w<?ro! You let that man. take that stuff right nut and put it in the hack part of the cart, under tho scat!" — ) Tho Rer Srnuggins: "Ye feeemed j awfu' affcctit by my sermin thf day, ' Mrs Donald." Mrs Donald: "The wYmin! Hoch, no! But if someyin < bandit ye a envoiine lozenge instead o' h peppuriniut yin. ye'd be affcctit yorsof." Always LARGE STOCKS