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    Wait for Weight
    Wait for Weight
    Wait for Weight
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    Wait for Weight

    By Don Sibley and Jack McKenty

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Wait for Weight - Don Sibley

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wait for Weight, by Jack McKenty

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Wait for Weight

      Author: Jack McKenty

      Illustrator: Don Sibley

      Release Date: June 6, 2010 [EBook #32717]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAIT FOR WEIGHT ***

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      Wait for Weight

      By JACK McKENTY

      Sometimes the best incentive is to tell a man that success will throw him out of a job!

      Illustrated by SIBLEY

      When Dr. Allport Brinton's alarm clock sounded, it brought madness. It was very clever; it not only rang chimes of amazing penetrating power, it turned on all the lights in the room, closed the window, and started his bath water running. But this morning it was not appreciated. In fact, as Dr. Brinton got out of bed, he silently called down evil on the technician who had built it for him.

      The off switch was on the wall farthest away from his bed and was controlled by a hairtrigger combination dial that couldn't be operated by anyone not fully awake. Dr. Brinton fumbled for a while, then gave up and started looking for his bedroom slippers. They had apparently crawled away during the night.

      He padded into his bathroom barefoot. He was about to see what a hot bath would do for what he had already diagnosed as a histamine headache when the alarm clock, having decided that anyone who could sleep through ten minutes of chiming was unwakable, stopped chiming, turned off the lights, opened the window, and let all the water out.

      Dr. Brinton was walking back

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