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Show Might Move Some Time. Relng economical Is nn excellent vin-tue. vin-tue. hut old Skinflint had practiced this quality to such an extent that with lilm It had become tiluiost a lce. His wife was sometimes ilrlxen almost to the verge of distraction by his meanness. The climax came when they moved Into In-to a new house. When old Sklulllnt was out his wife thought she would re-paper re-paper the walls of the drawing room so as to make It look attractive and pretty. Rut when Hklnlllnt saw It he nearly had a tit. "I don't dislike the pattern or tho color," he gasped, purple In the face with rage, "hut I do object to the way you have put It on. You extruvagant woman," he cried, "how dare you paste It ou?" "Why, how else could I have donu It?" meekly answered his wife. "How else?" he retorted. "You should have tacked It on. You don't suppose we shall always live In this house, do you?" |