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and sore and tart. He was absent-minded, as usual, and it
was not his house really, and it was not his wife, also, that
he saw lighting a lantern. But he thought it was his wife;
and, mad and hungry, he went up to her and soundly cuffed his
supposed spouse on the ear! He must have satisfaction out of
something, you know. She screamed, and out came the true hus-
band, and away went our booby,
about running his legs off to
get away! When he reached
his own home, he forgot him-
self again! His wite appear-
ing, he went up to her and
begged her pardon for cuffing
her ears!”

The boys thought this was
capital.

“Why, I suppose the poor
man was so hungry he did not
know what he was about, when
he acted so!” said Ralph.

“No doubt he was hungry
enough, and he seemed to have
tried hard to get something to
eat; but he was about as suc-
cessful as the three dogs in this

 

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picture which I have. There
was food on a shelf, and that they well knew; but a cat and two
kittens had got ahead of them, and only mocked at their frantic efforts
to reach the shelf and rout the invaders,” replied the doctor.
“Oh—h—h!” said Rick.