HE WAS CUT OFF.
The telephone girl and the ledger clerk, to whom she had promised her heart and hand, were seated by the
fireside dreaming of the happy future when they would be one. From one little detail to another the talk finally drifted to the subject of lighting the fires in the morning. On this point tTie young man was decided. He stated it as his emphatic opinion that it was the wife's place to get up and* light the fires, and let the poor, husband rest. After this declaration there was silence for about half-a-second, then the girl thrust out her finger encircled by a ring, and murmured sweetly but firmly: "Ring off, please; you hare got connected with the wrong number!"
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 6
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125HE WAS CUT OFF. Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 6
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