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Show The Wrong One. Jones was, just putting on his overcoat over-coat when he casually remarked to Mrs. Jones that he would be working overtime that night, says the Chicago Journal. "Don't wait for me, dear," he remarked. re-marked. "I may be rather later than usual. But, there, it cannot be'helped." At breakfast next morning he was stonily silent and the stillness of the room was not even broken by the tick-tick tick-tick of the clock on the mantelpiece. "Mary, dear," remarked Jones presently, pres-ently, "there is something the matter with the. clock. I wound it up last night, too." "Oh, no, you didn't!" said Mrs. Jones, icily. "What you did wind up was Teddy's musical box, and when you came to bed at 3 o'clock this morning it was playing 'Home, Sweet Home.' " |