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Show An Insult to the Cook. "Wo had Just engaged a new cook," said the young matron. "I was going out, and ns lots of llttlo things wcro lying around In my room, I locked tho door. Imagine my surprise when I returned to ho greeted In tho hall by n crltnblo fury impersonated by this same ncwly-nrrlved cook. Sho hurled nil in minor of violent langungo at mo, and, surprised as I was, and Incoherent Incoher-ent as sho was, I managed to mako out that sho had boon accused of being be-ing a thief. "Why sho folt so bad about it was tho puzzle. 'Why do you lock your door?' sho howled. Of courso, that explained It all, and so, very gently, I nbked her how sho had known It was locked. Sho wns only silent a moment In order to think up an answer. 'I wnntod a needle, and so I wont up' sho was saying, when I interrupted with; 'But that was qulto wrong.' I was Just about to send In ah alarm when my husband camo homo. Ho did tho rest. Wo dlnod out" Philadelphia Philadel-phia Record. |