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Show Tin: Conundrum Man Again. The neighbor was laboriously trying try-ing to nail weather strips on his cellar window when the man next door spied hlra and hustled across the yard. "I Just thought of a good one." said tie man next door. "Uh!" observed the neighbor, whacking whack-ing his stiffened fingers with the hammer. ham-mer. "What is the difference between a man whose daughter Is about to marry a foreign nobleman and a man with six children and a wife who Is figuring figur-ing the expense of a trip to Mexico?" "What'o his wife figuring the expense ex-pense for? Why doesn't he do It?" OBked the neighbor, after taking four nails out of ills mouth. "His wife Isn't figuring the expenses ex-penses He is. Besides, that hasn't anything to do with " "You Just said his wife was figuring figur-ing tho expenses." "I said 'a man with six children and " "All boys?" "I don't know. That's Immaterial, anyhow." "Makec a big difference In dry goods bills." "You don't grasp the Idea. The first man has a daughter who is about to marry a foreign nobleman " "Whero'd she meot him?" "I don't know. And the other man has six children and a " "How many boys and girls?" "That doesn't enter Into the question. ques-tion. The point " "13 he any kin to tho other man?" "It doesn't make any difference. He" "Didn't you ask me what was the dlfferenco?" "The question Is " "If It doesn't make any difference I don't see what difference It Is what the difference la," growled the neighbor, neigh-bor, cutting at the weather strip with a dull knife. The man next door drew himself up proudly and turned haughtily away, snapping: "One has to take a count Into his family and the other hB to take his family Into account, but I don't care two hoots If you never guess ltl" And he went In. |