MRS GUDDEL'S NEW HAT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 4960, 17 May 1902, Page 1

MR S GUDDEL'S NEW HAT.

'Another new hat, Jemima? W*o Is going to pay for that ? ' ' I am' Jaok ; don't you, be afraid.' ' You are ! Got » legacy or found a five-pound note, eh ? 'Pears tojhfethere'i no end to some women's extravagance.' ' Dear me L Of course* a man's not ex* travagant ; ob m o ! It's always the poor

'Well, Mrs Guddel, I know I can't afford to pay for new hats at pretent* with the. Moly.neux seven feet above .-normal and such a heap of "dredging oallsV* ' Drodoiriff orandmothers ! Why don't you talk like that when youcci toying tobacco and, cigars, w^itej?»istqsajb8 t and . I've no patfchoe with you ? ' ' Well, I guess it woo Id have bean • good jobffor us if Eve^ had ? ju.tl> ibeen as selfish »• same wom.en'l know.' ' You know. ''' That's the man »U over. " I know " ; it's always *' I know." . It's enough to sicken a common oat.' ' How you do talk, Jemima., j But what about the hat? 1

* Weil, it's a beauty, a peefeet'duck of a hat : I look ten years younger In it, Jack.' ' Who told you that ? The saleswoman who sold it, I bet.' 1 But doesn't it suit me, Jaok s Opme now, be. generous.' ' Oh, yes ;it suits you all right. But how am 1 to pay for it.' • Pay, Jack? Why, I've paid for it.' « Wha— wha— what ! Paid? Where d'ye get the money ? ' ♦ Saved it.' 1 You saved it ? How ? When 1 Wfcefce P 1 Be a good, boy, Jack, tend listen.' ' I'm all ears.'

• Well,-they're, pretty big Jack ; but let that be. Has your Tea been good lately V 1 Rather ; I'll say that fotyou^Jemlma, you know a good oup of Tea, and can mrke it, too.' • Well I used to use Jenkins blend at 2s a pound, bat Mrs Podgy put' me on to Cock o* lhe North, at the lame price, and 1 foand 2lb of it just lasted as long as 31b of Jimlkm's blend and a J3arer<*njl better Tea/ too.' 'Oh, I see.' . 'So did I; so I dropped Jimlkla's blend ; and as result the Hondai-L«nki> Tea enabled me to save as much in three months as paid for that hat« What d'ye think of that V 1 You're a smartie, Jemima ; I aitrayi said so. Well, that Cock 6* the North's ! a rattlin' good Tea, anyhow.' • I should think it is.' ' Bat, Jemima, with next three months* aavings hadn't you better bujh something useful?' ' Jack, yoa are a. teaae.' . . I may. be a tease, but. I'm evidently a chicken in knowledge of Teas compared to yon.' Oh ! what a pun!' (Exit omnes.)