Too Thin.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 282, 10 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

Too Thin.

“ Talking about the men,” said the storytelling passenger in the smoking carriage, “I was up in Queensland last month, and while there saw the thinnest man that ever lived, I wonder that the waxworks men haven’t got hold of him.” “How thin was he2” “Wait a minute—l’m cornin’ to that. While I was at his house, stopping to inquire the road, he drove up with a load of wood, and on getting down his pants got caught in a splinter and torn awfully, just below the knee. His wife was a-standing there in the yard, and she says : “ ‘Oh my ! John, you’re a pretty lookin’ object to be standin’ there talkin’ to a gentleman with your trousers torn that way. Wait a minute an’ I’ll fix ’em.’ ” “ Did she sew them up right before your eyes 2” “No ; she ran in the house an’ came out a minute or two later with three or four clothes-pins and struck ’em on his legs to hold the flapping pieces of his trousers in place,”