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Histoire d'un pantalon

Un ouvrier, un soir de règlement, cache sa paie dans un pantalon qu’il serre dans un tiroir de commode. Voulant faire une mauvaise farce à sa femme, il lui dit qu’il n’a pas été payé et s’en va. Celle-ci, très contrariée, et à court d’expédients, avise un marchand d’habits et lui vend le pantalon sans songer à en visiter les poches. Le mari revenu, sa femme lui rend compte de son exploit ; celui-ci, furieux, la bouscule et part à la recherche de son pantalon. Toujours courant, il houspille chaque passant, croyant toujours reconnaître son pantalon. Il le retrouve enfin avec tout son compte de bonne monnaie.

PAT 1906-03

He's Got Them on

Jovial workman takes his week's pay and goes home, puts his money in a bag and places it in a pair of trousers in a drawer. His wife comes in. She wants money, but he informs her he has none to give. He goes out. She wants to raise some, and tries to sell her lamp to an old clo' man, but he will not buy anything but clothing, and she sells her husband's precious trousers. Her husband arrives home, and she tells him what she has done. He is terribly angry and rushes out to find the old clo'man. It will make you laugh to accompany him in his search for the lost trousers, ans to see the way he pursues and examines all the light-coloured garments he comes across.

The Era, London, March 24, 1906, p. 34.