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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 348, 29 March 1911, Page 7

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•T dun 1 thin"; I'll try any more i ra■■'. ical in cs nil my wife. They d..u't pan nut well." '• *o i see she lias a habit of hoist ng t.'ic window in our room eery right. As I usually ?» to bed la si", she depends on me to h"■ iwt it. Sometimes 1 forget it, and then there's a wild squabble. Frequently she wakes up in the night and as'ia me to see if it is open. If 1 d.n't she nags at me till morning. A night or two ago I resolved to gi e her a hard seare. I rolled up a lot of old newspapers into a bundle and laid the package down by the w ndow. Of course she was asleep, end didn't hear me. Then I niun.'d the window a little way and •■re; t into bed. Some time after midnight she nudged me and said : ' • im, I'm sure you didn't open ; that window—it's like a bake oven ■ n the ronrn. Get up and see.' So 1 got up, went, to the window, and threw the sash as high as it would go. As L did so I gave a little i :-hrie- and then flung my bundle down to the walk below. It struck 1 with a dull thud, and I dodged behind the curtain to await develop- : ments. The room was very dark, : and I couldn't see my wife, but I \ heard her raise herself to a sitting | posture. Then she spoke, 'Poor old | Jim,' she said cmietly, ' he's tumbled j out of the window in his raggedest i ni.htshirt. What a spectacle he'll ! be when they tind him in the morning !' Then she lay down again ■■ and went, to sleep." j '•'What did you do ?" I "ritood there shivering for a mini ute or two, and then sneaked into ! Led."