Show One More Unfortunate By Carolyn Wells My dear said Mr Wise to his wife ns they sat In their cosy sitting room after tho evening meal was over my dear nover lot anybody inveigle In-veigle you Into attempting to do one of those picture puzzles What ate they John Inquired Mrs Wise Ive never seen one Ive never seen one either declared de-clared her husband and I hope I never shall The boys at the bank today to-day were talking about them and of all unspeakable foolishness they arc the worst Only nn Idiot would waste hours of good time puttering over ridiculous ri-diculous little scraps of jigsawed woodOh Oh jigsaw puzzles No 1vo never Boon one but Mrs Carter who was at our Womans Culture club today said they were great fun and sho said shed send over one for me to try She did did she Well youll send it back to her unopened I wont have I t a I i n oIl ml r Il II I i tl 1 I tf i Dont Go Now John I my wife making a blithering fool of herself In any such manner Why theyre been known l to send weak minded people to the fnsano asylum I I dont want to go to the asylum Im sure said Mrs Vise placidly and then as n maid servant entered tho room sho said What Is It Jane Its n parcel maam that Mrs Carter sent over to you Its that confounded puzzle roared Mr Wise jumping to his feet You may go Jane Ill take this back to the Carters myself and toll them what I think of their class of II brains Dont t go now John expostulated Mrs Wise Theyre out this evening Ill take It over tomorrow Ivo no wish to offend Mrs Carter shes a good neighbor She may be a good neighbor but shes a fool woman Here Ill just show you what sort of tommyrot she wastes her tlmo over Jerking oft the string Mr Wise dumped the contents of the box on a small table Where Is the picture to copy from asked his wife There Isnt any I know that because be-cause the boys at the bank said so Then can you make up any soil of n picture you want to Oh Hannah Commend me to n woman for fool questions No 1sup J pose Its this way You sec this HUla piece Is pint of a horses bridle you can sec the mane so there must be n horse In the picture and perhaps a rider on him Oh yes heros a bit of the riders faceAnd And heres his spear or lance or whatever you call it Look out Dont Joggle me Wheres a bit shaped like a longish square with one side curved Is this It Tho very thing See how It fits In Move oft that brlcabrac Hannah give me room for the clouds and tops of the trees HuUUUhhhhh Isnt this the horses tall It looks so but that shaped bit wont fit Try it for the feather in the knights head rigging Ah thero we aro Four hours more of this sort of conversation and eager hard work on the part of two people Then Mr Wise stretches himself looks at his watch and says Hannah my dear I suppose Jane ias gone to bed so wont you make n pot ot strong coffee for us and bring out some of your good doughnuts and pie and well have a little lunch and then well finish this thing Its nearly half done and Its a shame not to finish fin-ish it itYes Yes dear said Mrs Wise Copyright 190U by W G Chapman |