ALL HAD A TURN.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 321, 8 January 1907, Page 5

ALL HAD A TURN.

A doctor recently ordered a pair o trousers from a tailor. On trying them on they proved to be several inches too long. It being late on Saturday night, the tailor’s shop was closed, and the doctor took the trousers to his wife and asked her to cut the surplus off and hem them over. The good lady, whose dinner had perhaps disagreed with her, snappishly refused. The same results followed applications to the wife’s sister and the eldest daughter. Before bedtime the wife, relenting, took the trousers, and, cutting off six inches from the legs, hemmed them up nicely, and restored them to the closet. Half-an-hour later her daughter, taken with compunction for her unfilial conduct, took the trousers, and, cutting off six inches, hemmed and replaced them. Finally the sister-in-law felt the pangs of conscience, and she, too, performed an additional surgical operation on the garment. When the doctor appeared at breakfast on Sunday morning, the family thought a Highland chieftain had arrived.