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Show Son Took the Wind Out of Dad's Sails A shrewd old Yankee who hnd accumulated ac-cumulated a fortun by strict economy, econ-omy, noticed his son had spent carfare car-fare to go a few blocks and deemed the expense a foolish one. That evening eve-ning after dinner he called his son into the library, saying he wished to speak with him. "Put first," he siild, "I will turn down the light; we can talk just as well in the dark and It will save gas." As he went on explaining ex-plaining the value of economy he heard a fumbling and shuffling from the direction of his son's chair. Stopping Stop-ping his lecture he inquired: "Sam, what are you doing';" "Father," came from the darkness, "I can hear just a1! well without 'em, so while we are hitting here in the dark I'm taking off my trousers to save 'em." For the rest of the evening economics econom-ics were not discussed. Boston Transcript. |