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Evening Star, Issue 24007, 4 October 1941, Page 3

\ certain man stayed out much later at night than his wife liked, and as he would never tell her where he had been, she got their little boy to ask him. One morning at breakfast the said; “ Dad, where were you last night? “ Well, if vou must know, I. was sitting with a sick*friend.” “Oh! Did your sick friend die?” “What an absurd question! Of course he didn’t die.” “ Oh, but did you hold your sick friend’s band? ” “ No,” answered the father, “how foolish you arc! Of course 1 didn’t. And then he added, with a far-away look in his eyes; “T wish to heaven T had. He held four aces.”