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Show BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY nE entered the ladles' sitting-room at the railway station, walked up to a woman whose husband had left the room about ten minutes previously, pre-viously, and calmly Inquired: "Madam, "Ma-dam, your husband went out to see the river, didn't he? "Yes why?" she answered, turning pale in an instant. "He was a tall man, wasn't he?" "He was," she replied, rising up and turning still paler. "Had red hair?" "He had. Oh, what has happened?" "Weighed about 180 pounds?" "Yes, yes! Where is he where is my husband?" she exclaimed. "Couldn't swim, could he?" "He's drowned my husband is drowned!" she wailed. "Had a silver watch chain?" continued con-tinued the stranger. "Where is my husband here is the body?" she gasped. "Do not get excited, madam. Did your husband have on a gray suit?" "Yes, Oh, my Thomas, my Thomas!" And lace-up boots?" "Let me see him let he see him!" she cried. "Come this way, madam, but do not get excited. There, is that your husband hus-band across the street at that fruit stand?' "Why, yes, that's him; that that's my husband!" she exclaimed joyfully. "I thought you said he was drowned." "No, madam, I did not. I saw him buying a cocoanut, and I believe it to be my duty to say to you that cocoa-nuts cocoa-nuts are not healthy at this season of the year." Express Gazette. |