Марк Твен - Смешные рассказы / The Funny Stories

“Sent down for the expert again, and this time he struck a most dazzling idea – he fixed the thing so that opening the kitchen door would take off the alarm. It was a noble idea, and he charged accordingly. But you already foresee the result. I switched on the alarm every night at bed-time, no longer trusting on Thomas’s memory; and as soon as the lights were out the burglars walked in at the kitchen door, thus taking the alarm off without waiting for the cook to do it in the morning. For months we couldn’t have any company. Not a spare bed in the house; all occupied by burglars.

“Finally, I got up a cure of my own. The expert answered the call, and ran another wire to the stable, and established a switch there, so that the coachman could put on and take off the alarm. That worked first rate, and we even got to inviting company once more and enjoying life.

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He then went out and took in his sign. – Тогда он вышел на улицу и снял вывеску.

poor policy – зд. плохое решение

I believe that would have cured me, if it had not been for young Wilson. – Думаю, меня бы это вылечило, если бы не мой друг Уилсон.