She Tried to Make Her Man Behave

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Living with Barney, Joanne had decided, presented many of the same problems and pleasures as living with an affectionate pet moose. During the day the rooms of their pre-fab house seemed large enough. When Barney came home in the evening, the house shuddered and recoiled. He thumped and bellowed — all in perfectly good spirits.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand it. He was a vast, big-muscled young man, ex-fullback, ex-Marine and now a promising production engineer. He had led a muscular and expansive life thus far. And now he spent his working days in the huge high buildings where there were mysterious machines perfectly capable of picking up a locomotive and chewing it like so much bubble gum. Spending each day in a place where only those of good lung capacity could make themselves heard at all.

She knew his basic tenderness and the good warmth of his love. But sometimes she wished that he would not cause her to remember the time a neighbor’s St. Bernard puppy, in ponderous affection, had tumbled her over a porch railing.

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