SOMETHING WRONG.
The people didn't merely look at Professor Braneiog—thoy stared. He know he wa3 absent-minded at times, and he wondered whether he had nibbed his face with boot-polish instead of cold cream after he had shaved, 01 whether he had forgotten to change his dressing-gown for his frock-coat. But a kind policeman put things right. " Are you aware, sir, that you are carrying a joint of beef in your arms!" he asked. "Goodness me!" said the professor. " I knew something was wrong. My wife told me to put her Sunday hat on the bed, to place this joint in the oven, and to take the baby and the dog out for a walk." " You've not put the baby in the oven, surely?" said the law's guardian. "I put something in it," said Branefog, " but I don't know whether it was the baby or the dog." With bated breath they hurried to the professor's house. ( Here, on the bed, lay the baby and'the dog, but it vas just as bad for Branefog. It was his wife's S\inday hat that was in the oven I
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10537, 12 August 1912, Page 1
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