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Show A FULL STOP. --A party of gentlemen were playing cards a few nights ago, and the game went smoothly until 11 o'clock, when one of the party, a young man, got up and said hurriedly: "Gentlemen, I must go; my wife is expecting me." "Don't go" urged another. "I'm a married man also, and if I can stay you can." The young man agreed, and the poker continued until 1 o'clock. At that hour he got up and said he could not stay any longer. "What the devil are you going to tell your wife?" he said to his married confrere. "Nothing at all. She's in Washington. --Louisville Journal. |