One morning Mrs. Perry said to her husband, “Jack there’s a
meeting of our ladies’ club at Mrs. Young’s house at lunch time today, and I
want to go to it. I’ll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all
rights?”.
“Oh, yes”, her husband answered, “that’s quite all right.
What are you going to leave for my lunch?”.
“This tin of fish”, Mrs. Perry said. “And there are some
cold, boiled potatoes and some beans here, too”.
“Good”, Mr. Perry answered. “I’ll have a good lunch”.
So Mrs. Perry went to her meeting. All the ladies had lunch
at Mrs. Young’s house, and at three o’clock Mrs. Perry came home.
“Was your fish nice, Jack?”, she asked.
“Yes, but my feet are hurting” he answered.
“Why are the hurting?”, Mrs. Perry asked.
“Well, the words on the tin were, ‘Open tin and stand in hot
water for five minutes’”.