Paulette Lorsy

In consequence of a first kiss, poor Max finds himself claimed as a property of a persistent damsel. Even his approaching marriage does not deter the lady, who leads him a merry dance.

In this one, [Max] is on vacation and wooing a young lady, but she and her cousin decide to play a trick on him, by getting him inside a barrel, and then tossing it into the ocean.

Max vient de se marier et désire être seul avec sa femme. Mais la belle-mère reste tout le temps avec eux (dans le salon, dans la cuisine, dans la chambre...). Même pour le voyage de noces à la montage elle les accompagne. Max se venge avec les sports d'hiver, car la belle-mère veut faire les mêmes activités que le couple (patinage, luge, ski...). Mais à la fin elle en a assez et se réconcilie avec Max, promettant de les laisser tranquilles.

Max a besoin d'un tonique après une maladie et le médecin lui prescrit un verre de vin de Bordeaux trois fois par jour. Une seule fois ne suffit pas, car Max boit un quart de verre de vin et s'attire des ennuis.

Max has just been married, but is about to be divorced, because at his marriage party he disgraced himself. Of course, the matter is a secret, but Max was most horribly annoyed with a persistent flea that located itself in his nether garments. So, retiring to a quiet spot, he removed both the garments and the flea, but, unfortunately, he was discovered in his seclusion. In the divorce court Max wins his case, but just how is too good to tell in a story of this sort.

Max and his wife each blame the other for a nagging tongue. Max offers to bet his wife fifty pounds, even money both ways, that she will be the first to speak or make a sign after the acceptance of the bet. His wife accepts the wager, and the two young people allow their flat to be burgled rather than move or murmur. Max sits out the ordeal in agony, up to the time the burglar attempts to kiss his wife. Then, with a yell, he rises to punch the burglar's head. There is joy in the punch, but less in the drawing of the check.