Cashier Takes Buttons
Instead of Medicine
Wilson, Dec. 27—A bank cashier of this city a few days ago
came to the conclusion that he had a sever attack of asthma and stopping at a
drug store purchased one dozen aspirin tablets.
The box that contained the medicine struck the fancy of one
of his daughters as being the very thing to pack a Christmas present in and the
cashier’s wife took the tablets from the box and placed them in a pin tray and
placed the tray in a bureau drawer, and warned him not to forget to take them
just before retiring each night until they were all taken.
For several nights in succession the asthmatic forgot his
dope until getting between the sheets and knowing about where his wife placed
them, got up in the dark and gulped them down. The fourth morning his wife in plundering
in the bureau drawer found that not a single table had been taken, and asked: “Why
dear?”
He replied: “I have taken the last one and never felt finer in
my life.”
Instead of the tray with tablets he had been swallowing
white pearl shirt buttons from another pin tray, and says he feels “all
buttoned up.”
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