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Show HIS WIFE WAS NOT SO SLEEPY AFTER ALL. (Washington Post.) The man who won"t take the time to work off any conversation upon his wife until after they are in bed and who then begins to tell her ' the day's stock of funny stories after she is too slee?y to stay awake, so that she always goes to sleep on his hands while he is talking to her, had an awfully funny one to narrate nar-rate unto her after he had doused the glim and crawled into bed a few nights ago. "Ha! ha! ha!" he gurgled, as he settled set-tled back on his pillow his wife had been in. bed for about fifteen minutes then. "Heard a Jim Dandy of a story about Billy Fantoide this afternoon. Jt seems that Billy took it into his head to go fishing up the river one afternoon last week, and b'jing, he hired a leaky skiff over in Georgetown without knowing that the blamed thing was leaky. Well; when he had rowed out to the middle of the river, why he" At this stage of it the narrator heard an exceedingly gentle feminine snore aloneside of him. "B!jee. if she hasn't gone to sleep on me again." he said to himself, aggriev-edly. aggriev-edly. "Mary," he said, aloud, ,"are you awake?'' There was no reply. - "Huh!" Wonder , she couldn't just be civil enough to keep awake while a fellow's fel-low's telling her a good story, anyhow," he growled to, himself, and then he had a 'sudden idea. "Well," he proceeded, in precisely the same tone that ' he had employed in starting out to tell his funny story, "as I was saying, this swell queen that gave me the goo-goo eye on F street this afternoon aft-ernoon weighed about" 158 pounds, and she was built from the ground un, too, I'm a-telling you, and she had got the swaggerest bunch ' of golden hemn and the niftiest violet eyes you ever saw, at that; and so when I pranced up to her and asked her if I hadn't met her somewhere some-where and then took her around the cor-ner cor-ner to have a bite of lobster-and a little something to ' drink and a quiet little chat, why, we" "John Forwhlch, how dare you have the hardihood to lie there and confess such outrageous things to me!" his wide-awake spouse broke In just at thi9 psychological moment and then he had to spend a good part of the remainder of the night explaining to her that he was only fooling in order to see if she would wake up, and it is not altogether' a cinch that she isn't suspicious of him yet, at that. . |