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Show FEARED IT WAS FOR SPITE Mrs. Green Considerably Relieved When Husband Explained His Reasons for Singing. Mr. Green fancied his voice, and hardly ever failed to attend any musical mu-sical evenings that were given in his neighborhood. On this occasion, however, he was rather nervous, for his wife was going with him for the first time, and she had never heard him sing In public; in fact, she' didn't know he had ever done so. When the meeting was drawing to a close the chairman stood np and asked if any gentleman would oblige with a song. Green at once climbed upon the platform and obliged much to his wife's annoyance, if one could accept her expression as a criterion of her feelings. "George," she whispered, when the psir were on their way home, "what ever made you sing?" "Why, my dear," said her husband, "to give pleasure to the other geusts." "Oh, I'm so glad !" sighed Mrs. Green, with great relief. "I thought you were taking vengeance on me for making you wait 20 minutes for your dinner this evening I" London Tit-Bits. |