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Show SHIFTING THE BLAME. It was a nice little house, built especially espe-cially fo the owner's plana, and had ' everything up to date, with a few remtn- ders of the (nod old days. For Instance. there was a sun dial placed at the foot of the garden. On the first sunny day the owner com- ! pared his own reliable fold chronometer j with Old Hoi's timepiece and found there was a difference of two hours. Obviously the fl.Turcs on the sun dial haa been misplaced. mis-placed. The builder was sent for and ar-,rived. ar-,rived. j "Have a took at that siin dial strain." ( said the owner sifnlftrantly. "it makes the time 11 a. m...and. as a matter of! fact, the correct time ia 1 p. m." The builder looked long and earnestly st hie handiwork, and then slapped his "Ah." he exclaimed. With a proud ring m hs vole. "I see rot It la. sir. There's I something wrong with the sun!" Ideas. |