Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor VI. [antikvár]

CHARLES B. LEWIS C M. Quad'*) THE PATENT GAS REGULATOR 1WAS thinking to-day that it was about time!" observed Mrs. Bowser, as Mr. Bowser came home the other evening with a saspicious-looking package under his arm. "About time for what?" "I suppose you've run across some more germ-killer, or a new kind of medicine chest, or a pocket fire-escape. How on earth you let people take you in as they do is a wonder to me!" "Who has ever taken me in!" he hotly demanded. "Everybody who had anything in the shape of a swindle." "I deny it! You can't point to one single instance where I have made a poor investment! On the contrary, I have saved us hundreds of dollars per year in cold cash, not to mention sickness, suffering and doctors' bills, by the outlay of a few shillings now and then." "What new idea is it this time?" she asked, as she resigned herself to the inevitable. "Mrs. Bowser," he replied, after walking back and forth across the room three or four times, "if I can save one-half our gas bill just as well as not, I'd be a chump not to do it, wouldn't I ? " 3