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A carpet installer was laying new living room carpeting in a large mansion.
After laboriously pulling, stretching, and tacking the carpet, he finally
finished, and gratefully sat back to enjoy a cigarette.

Reaching into his shirt pocket, however, he found that his cigarettes were
gone, and looking toward the center of the room, he saw a bulge the size of
a cigarette pack under the new carpeting. He of course had no intention of
pulling up the carpet, so instead he took a large mallet, and pounded the
lump flat, so it could not be seen.

He then hopped in his truck and headed back to the office. On the way, he
found his cigarettes in the glove compartment.

Just then his cellphone rang. When he answered it, he discovered
it was the dispatcher from his office. The dispatcher said that the
homeowner had just called them in a panic.

It seems their son's favourite pet hamster was missing. Had the carpet layer
seen the hamster while he was in the house?