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Show WHERE HER THOUGHTS WERE Most Married Men Have Had a Similar Sim-ilar Experience, If They Will Admit the Truth. The husband was reading a newspaper news-paper account to his wife. Now and then he paused and asked a question. The nature of her replies made him doubt that she was listening closely. He accused her of having thoughts elsewhere, and she indignantly retorted retort-ed that she had heard every word. He continued reading for a few minutes and then . glanced at her. From the faraway look in her eyes he knew her thoughts were not upon the item he was reading. So, turning turn-ing the sheet as an excuse for a pause, he continued as follows: apparently ap-parently reading: " 'Last night, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon,' just a few minutes before breakfast, a hungry boy about sixty years old bought an orange for nine pins and threw It through a concrete wall twenty feet thick. With a cry of despair he jumped into a dry mill pond, broke his arm at the knee-joint, knee-joint, and was drowned. It was only ten years later, on the same day and at the same hour, that a goat gave birth to six elephants. A high wind then came up and killed three dead horses and a wooden cigar Indian.' What do you think of that, dear?" he questioned, suddenly. Sh)j gave a little start, smiled, and said: "I think that's a splendid bargain, Henry. You had better get half a dozen, for your stock of shirts is low." |