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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 49

AWKWARD. Mrs. De Troop (who ie short-sighted). — -Good morning. Mrs. Simkins. Your husband must be very fond of gardening. I saw him the first thing this morning down in the bottom of the garden. And how well he looks, to be sure! Mrs. Simkins turned her back and slammed the door in her neighbour's face. The latter, aghast, went to tell her daughter. “And you told her. mother, that the thing in the onion-bed was her husband?” ‘‘Of course I did.” “Well, that's not her husband, that’s a scarecrow.”