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Show HOW HE DID THE CHORES Wound Up the Music Box and Put His Corkscrew in the Barometer. Barom-eter. "You needn't wait for me," explained the head of the house; "I have a dinner din-ner engagement, an important business busi-ness affair, and no doubt I shall be kept quite late." At breakfast next morning an ominous om-inous silence had fallen upon all. The head of the house had no appetite and was evidently far from feeling well. After a painful silence the husband, hus-band, without meeting his wife's eye, essayed to start conversation. It's funny about that clock," he said. "It's stopped, and I'm sure I wound it last night." "You are mistaken," said his wife, icily; "you wound up Willie's music box instead and it played 'Home, Sweet Home' till daylight. The clock in the hall has also stopped, but I find that you screwed your corkscrew into the barometer." |