PLAYFUL TWINS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 45, 8 November 1890, Page 24

PLAYFUL TWINS.

Twix brothers, exactly alike in appearance, determined to play a trick upon a fashionable hairdresser. Accordingly Twin No. 1 carelessly dropped into the shop, and was ‘cut, shaved, and shampooed.’ * My hair grows pretty fast,' he remarked during the course of the operation. ‘ I had better make a yearly contract with you. What are your terms for annual subscribers ?’ * One guinea, sir,' was the reply. ‘ You pay in advance, and come as often as you please.' He paid the guinea and left. In the course of the afternoon the other brother dropped in : his hair was decidedly in want of trimming, and with a beard of three days' growth. He nodded familiarly to the barber, and took his seat in the operating chair. ‘ I told you it wouldn't be long before you saw me again.’ The poor haircutter looked aghast, but began to do his office. The likeness of the two brothers was so perfect that he never suspected a trick. ‘ 1 never knew any gentleman’s hair and beard grow so fast as yours.’ he remarked. ‘ Not fast as this? Bless your heart! this is nothing. At this time of the year I can rub along with thiee shaves a day, but in summer it tuns to half a dozen. I shall look in again before I go to the theatre in the evening.’ The unfortunate hairdresser took a desjierate resolve. ‘ Look here, sir : you wouldn't wish to ruin a struggling man, I'm sure. Here's your guinea. I'll make you a present of the two crops you ve had, but for heaven's sake don't come back again !’