SETTLED WITH A WHACK.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 8, 20 February 1892, Page 192

SETTLED WITH A WHACK.

Ox one of the late ferry boats the other evening was a welldressed man and woman who sat side by side on the deck talking earnestly. When the boat was about west of Governor’s Island the man said in a loud voice : ‘ But I say it was, and that settles it.’ ‘ Oh, well, it does not,’ said his companion, rising from her seat and bringing a parasol down on his head with a bang : ‘ but that does.’ Evidently it did, for the man jumped from his seat and quickly put the length of the boat between the parasol and his head, which, by the way, was bald on top and bled a little from the blow. To a few men who gathered around him with inquiring faces as he mopped his cranium, he said : ‘ It’s all right, gentlemen—all right. She’s my wife. We had a little discussion about some music we heard at the beach. I thought I knew more about it than she did, but I find out that I didn’t.’ 1 he pair left the boat arm-in-arm ten minutes later.