One evening after a brother had been a
guest at an installation, he had partaken of too much wine,
and his host was very worried, as he did not want him to drive
home in his present state which was some distance away, so
insisted that he stay the night at his house, and travel home
the next morning, and after much persuasion this is what he
did.
When he got home the next morning, his
wife was furious with him because he had forgotten to phone,
and she did not believe his story about staying with a brother
because of the state he was in, but wondered if he had been
with another women, however she pretended to believe him, by
asking how the ceremony had gone, and asked how many other
brethren had been there and all the regular questions that
wives do ask, and he told her that it had been an excellent
Lodge meeting and that 65 brethren had turn up etc. However at
the next Lodge meeting when the secretary rose to read out
correspondence, he read a letter from the wife asking if the
brother where her husband had stayed the night after the last
lodge meeting would please write to her and confirm his story
that he had stayed the night at his house because he was unfit
to drive home.
The next day in the post she received 64
letters.
