Mab, Smith was particularly fond of reminding her husband that the silver was hers, the plane was hers and the furniture was hers, and Smith was getting tired of it One night Mrs. Smith with awakened by noises downstairs: She shook her husband. "Henry," she said hoarsely. "Get up. There are burglars downstairs."
"Buglars!" echoed Smith, wearily. "Well, let em burgle. There's nothing of mine down there."
Henry and George "Wem," said Henry, "I went for a nice walk today—from Abbot's Snorting to Wopps-on-the-Wold and back by way of Tuppence Tebard and Ups-
"And how far was that?" asked Sorel, said Henry, lighting his pipe, "it took me six hours altogether, and I walk, as you know, at 30 miles an hour. And it took me twice as long from Tuppence Tabard to Ups-a-Daisy as it did from Abbot's Snorting to Wopps-on-the-Wold. But then I walked backwards half the way. And the distance from Wopps-on-the-Wold to Tuppence Tabard is seven miles, three furlongs, two yards, if you fly like a crow. But, of course, I walked."
must work that out," said George, reaching for pencil and long will it take George to solve the problem, remembering always that Henry, who has a bludgeon in his hand, suddenly recognizes Gegrge as a man who has owed him £8) for 10 years?
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