THAT'S WHY.
Henry felt like it! He'd a busy day at tho office doing nothing, and he arrived home in finicky mood. Pretty and charming, his wife presided at the dinner-table.
"What'll you have, dear?" she ask ed. "Some of this pie, some or "
Henry fastidiously surveyed both, pursed his lips, and trifled with some pie. The face at the other end of the table hardened a little.
"Why," he inquired later, as a smil ing raga-mnffin closed the garden gate, "do you feed every tramp that conies along? They do nothing for you." "No," said his wife calmly: "but there's a certain satisfaction in seeing a man eat a meal without finding fault with the cooking!"
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 28 January 1919, Page 4
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117THAT'S WHY. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 28 January 1919, Page 4
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