Summary
In a matrimonial arena where nocturnal thunder issues from one man’s uvula, a young wife—exasperated beyond the threshold of uxorial tolerance—banishes her husband’s rib-cage percussion to a distant chamber, chaining him to a regimen of mandated hibernation and forbidding the green-felt fraternities that once perfumed his evenings with cigar smoke and bluff. Yet the gambler’s itch, that exquisite rash of risk, festers beneath his skin; he orchestrates a sonic bait-and-switch, pressing the club’s most volcanic snorer into service as aural decoy. While counterfeit rumble drifts through corridors, our uxorious escapee slinks toward clandestine cards, only to be hurled into a Keystone-styled cyclone of police torches, flying cues, and marital reckoning. One dawn, identities collapse like poorly shuffled decks: the wrong man is found beside the marital counterpane, the right one scampers home, and equilibrium—fragile, farcical—resettles like chalk dust on a billiard sleeve.
Synopsis
A husband is such a powerful snorer that wifie forces him to evacuate the twin bed and move to a somewhat distant room to sleep until he shall have been broken of the habit, also insisting that he play no more poker games until he is completely caught up on sleep. Hubby wants to play the very next night, and hits upon the plan of substituting the club's heaviest snorer for himself after friend wife has retired. Wifie listens to the snoring, convinced that her husband is safe in bed. The poker game is raided and hubby has a hard time dodging cops. The young wife discovers the intruder, the husband sneaks home, and it ends all right.
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