A canary was the chief witness in a recent divorce suit in Munich, The petitioner swore that. his wife bent him. Respondent. vigorously denied the charge. The husband thereupon told the puzzled judge would produce a decisive the family canary. The Dird, he averred, "knew whenever respondent was ubout to 0 on the rampage, and would fly frantically inbour its euge. Sure enough, when Drought into court, the jude having ordered the wife t0 pretend to strike her husband, the ennary became wild Peso ie mage In caiding ith excitement and airyest denuded
with the euge bury The wife thereupon, broke down and confessed, Here's a pretty kettle of fish! "One is accustomed to. o¢- cational betrayal by the parrot, by reason of its gift of untimely speech, But what, pray, is going on in the head of the seemingly" innocuous house cat? The mild eye, too, of man's reputedly most faithful friend, what may not it assemble? As for those who harbour young rocodites, infant. serpents, beetles and suchlike creatures, they may expect only the very worst from their pets in a domestic crisis, We may son look to see such news headlines a8 "Dog Divulg Divoreée's Diversions." There is another phase of it, too. Teaven Joows it has been hard enough to find a caretaker for one's pets when cing on holiday. Hereafter, a guarantee of their discretion may be tie manded before another will undertake to look after them. Let none be astonished to read a small advert, like, young." couple' to" look "after her Luiy, eoing abroad, would tke
Sanary. "lid guaranteed perfect dumbell and docen't en Ins froma. kangaroo.
Here we have been worrying over the advent of television, and in the meantime goodness only knows what our white mice are prepared to swear to in court!
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