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Show This Far-Seeing Father Was Taking No Chances As Smith and Jones were waiting wait-ing at the bus stop, a passer-by stopped and asked Jones the time. Jones did not reply. After the stranger had passed on, Smith asked: "Why didn't you answer him?" "Well, it's this way," Jones replied. re-plied. "If I'd told him the time, he might have got chatting, and in the end I might have asked him home to supper. "There he might have met my daughter and they might have fallen in love. Finally they might have got married. "And let me tell you, I don't want a fellow for my son-in-law who can't afford to buy a watch." |