My wife will go to any extreme to keep people from， knowing she is home alone. One evening when I was working late， my wife heard a knock on the door. She ignosed it， but the knocing continued. Frantic， sloe began to bark， softly at first， then louder and louder. Much to her relief， the knocking soon stopped.

The next day the paper boy came to the door to collect. “I came by last night，” he told me， “but I left when your wife barked at me！”

我妻子獨自在家时，总是不想让别人知道家里没有其他的人。一天晚上，我工作到很晚。我妻子听到有人敲门，她就没理，但敲门的声音总是不停，慌乱之中，她开始学狗叫。一开始她低声地叫，随后她的叫声越来越大。敲门声很快地停了，她这才松了口气。

第二天，送报的小孩来我家收钱，那小孩告诉我：“我昨晚上就来了，你老婆老冲我学狗叫，我就走了。”