A MAN was telling his wife at breakfast of a furious dream that he had had the previous night.
"I dreamt I was dead," he said, "and was on my way to Heaven. At the foot of Jacob's Ladder I was handed a piece of chalk, with instructions to put a cross on each step for each sin I had committed, and when I was half-way up I met you coming down.
"Refused admittance?"
"No, dear, for my chalk."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.