Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock
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page 55 of 238 (23%)
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Why can't she speak? I think--hullo--who's this coming
in? Pretty hard-looking sort of woman--what's she got in her hand?--some sort of paper, I guess--she looks like a landlady, I shouldn't wonder if-- Flick, flick! Say! Look there on the screen: "YOU OWE ME THREE WEEKS' RENT." Oh, I catch on! that's what the landlady says, eh? Say! That's a mighty smart way to indicate it isn't it? I was on to that in a minute--flick, flick--hullo, the landlady's vanished--what's the girl doing now--say, she's praying! Look at her face! Doesn't she look religious, eh? Flick, flick! Oh, look, they've put her face, all by itself, on the screen. My! what a big face she's got when you see it like that. She's in her room again--she's taking off her jacket--by Gee! She _is_ going to bed! Here, stop the machine; it doesn't seem--Flick, flick! Well, look at that! She's in bed, all in one flick, and fast asleep! Something must have broken in the machine and missed out a chunk. There! she's asleep all right--looks as if she was dreaming. Now it's sort of fading. I wonder |
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