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asked her how it got out of the tube, and she said there was a hole in it.  I let the subject drop there, but I am ever so anxious to examine that thermometer.  I'll bet the tube is as whole as it ever was, but I haven't ever been in her room since.

Then she started on about an open iron plate that she uses under her coffee pot over the gas flame.  I hate the thing and never use it, but I had to listen to her suspicions about that - It is warped on the inner side - burned out I suppose from her overheating it.  "It has just happened recently,"