Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — IT WOULDN’T WORK. [ARTICLE]

IT WOULDN’T WORK.

He Put The Letter In the Book, But. There s a certain city father in this city who is a very busybody, so busy that, in spite of himself, he occasionally forgets some trifling affair. One evening last week he happened to put on a coat that had been hanging up all summer. After he had reached the club he discovered in the pocket of the garment a letter for his wife that had been directed in his care and which had been in his pocket three months or more. One of at the whist table said: “I’ll tell you how. I got out just such a scrape once. You take that letter home and quietly put it in a book; then along in the evening accidentally discover it:”- —~ '— ~~~ “I’ll do that very thing,”.said the banker. He did. And while the family were seated about the table in the library reading and chatting he accidently picked up the book and glanced through it. He finally discovered the letter and exclaimed to his wife: “Oh, here’s a letter directed to you. You must have put it here and forgotten it. It has not been opened!" As she took the letter she gave him a look that had a; hidden meaning, and while she,was reading the postmark his face had time to take on an expression of guilt. It took her just one minute to detect the scheme and reinforce herself with incontestable evidence of his guilt Then she turned her searching eyes on him and said: “No you don’t old boy. I bought that book this afternoon.” He saw the jig was up and surrended a§ gracefully as he could. Chicago Herald.