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Show Sam, who was a great gunner, made arrangements arrange-ments to go on a hunting trip at an early hour in the morning, but having no faith in alarm clocks, he sought the services of the night cop on the corner. "Jim," said he, Instructing the cop, "when 1 go to bed tonight I am going to tie. one end of a cord around my big toe and throw the other end out of the window. At 4 o'clock in the morning I want you to pull on the rope and keep on pulling pull-ing until I tell you to stop." "All right, Sam," smiled the policeman, "you will find me on the job." Late that night Sam crawled In, and after adjusting ad-justing the rope according to schedule, he was son in the land of dreams. Hardly had he slept a minute, he thought, when he was awakened by a frightened cry, and then more cries, and to his horror he saw Mrs. Sam slowly sliding feet first toward the window. "Gee!" ho exclaimed as the truth suddenly dawned upon him. "I must have tied that cord around the wrong toe." Philadelphia Telegraph. |