Oaest: "I sa y« ;(/ vs Smith, your husbaiid is just coining in. My wife and I will hide behind the curtain, and you tell him we haven't been able to come after all. Then we'll step out and surprise him." When her husband entered .Mrs Smith exclaimed : "Oh ! Jack! Isn't it a pity? Mr and Mrs Brown haven't been able to come to dinner after all!" "Pity?" said the hubband. "I'm jolly glad!"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 3
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