The Archive · 1940

Set Correctly

A Man living on the coast of Florida wrote to a New York store for a new barometer. When it arrived he unpacked it and discovered that he instrument was set at "Hurricane."

He tapped it and it did not budge. He hung t on the wall, tapped it again, and still it did rot budge.

Very angry, he wrote a strong letter to the tore and then went out to post it. When he returned his house as well as the new baron neter had been blown away.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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