A Broad Hint.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 17

A Broad Hint.

“Last week.’’ said Jones to some friends at the club the other night, “an old friend of mine who had lieen ten years away came into the office just as I was leaving. We had been friends at school, so 1 asked him to come home with me to dinner. There was no time to warn my wife, so I explained that he would have to take pot-luck. “Well, he came ami we sat down to dinner. I rather pride myself on my claret, and my guest appreciated it as only a man who has lieen away from home for years can appreciate good wine; between us we soon finished the bottle, and 1 asked him if 1 should open another, making sure he would say yes. To iny surprise. he said lie really wanted no more, and the more I pressed him th firmer his refusal became: and tm* firmer his refusal became the more I pressed him. But it was no good, and when dinner was over, he hurried off almost at once. “Rather surprised. I joined my wife in the drawing-room.” “’I can’t think why you kept pressing Mr. Blank to have another bottle of wine, when all the time I was kicking your foot under the table to make you understand we hadn’t another bottle in the house.* “ Now, I don’t mind telling you.” concluded .Toms, “though I didn’t tell my wife—that it was not my foot that she was kicking!”