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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 28, 1 February 1919, Page 14

BAD MEMORIES. While holding forth 00 the subject of air raids, George.Robey told a. good story recently concerning a. man named Jones, who lived in a London suburb where bombs were unpleasantly frequent visitors. Mrs. Jones, it appeared, suffered from nerves in consequence, and hubby decided to pack her and the children off _to Bournemouth for a while, himself going with thorn to see them settlod. Accordingly, at 8 o'clock one morning, the Jones's took trunks, bags, and suit coses, and bustled for the railway station. Twenty minutes later a taxi dashed up to the Jones's house, and out jumped Jones. "What's tho matter, old man?" asked a. kindly-disposed neighbour. "Forgotten something?" "Yes," ; snapped Jones. "My idiot of a wife left a kettle of water boiling on the gas stove. Didn't think of it until we 'reached the station. You can always depend on a. woman to have a memory like- that." So saying, Jones unlocked the door and hastened into the house. In about two minutes he oamo out again with his foatures puckered into, a peculiar twist. "How did you find it?" cheerfully asked the neighbour. "Sizzling to beat a. locomotive, I suppose." "No," guiltily answered Jones. "I had forgotten that I had turned the gas off at tho meter."

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