Millard County Chronicle | 1913-10-02 | Page 7 | Henpeck Has Little Joke

HENPECK HAS LITTLE JOKE For Once Ma Turned tha Tablea on ' Hla Wife and Surely Had a 1 Right to Laugh. ( Henpeck waa In a state of delimit all tbe evening; It was ao evident that at laat we aiked whether some one bad left blm a fortune. "No, but It la the joke of the ace. I have been laughing all day. Thla morning when I went Into the dining room at breakfast time there, waa no meal visible. 1 ent Into my wife's room and there the waa t til atrieep. Ho unlike Hertha, you know. I culled her: 'Sny, Hertha, It'a eight o'clock; i want my breakfast' Not a movement. move-ment. 1 shouted; shook the led: brought In the frying pun and bent the reveille upon It. All to no purpose What waa I to do? Time waa panning pann-ing and I didn't feel Inclined to go to work hungry, (let my on breakfast? break-fast? Not on your life. What am 1 married for? Then a bright thought struck me. I took off my shoe;, crept aa quie ly aa I could along the ins-aage; ins-aage; a board creaked; In a moment Hertha waa awake. "'James, where have you been? "And you ahould have aeen her when aha realUed the truth. Ha! ha!"