"
SON--"I don't need it, father; it's the hotel-keepers, the tailors,
and the taxicab men."
_See also_ Bills; Collecting of accounts.
DEGREES
"You college men seem to take life pretty easy."
"Yes; even when we graduate we do it by degrees."
--_Boston Transcript_.
Our British cousins seem to think we have peculiar ways of getting our
D.D.'s over here. A London newspaper relates how the congregation of a
Southern church, being desirous of honoring their pastor, wrote to the
dean of a certain faculty: "We want to get our beloved pastor a D.D.
We enclose all the money we can raise at present. Be good enough to
send one D. now. We hope to raise sufficient for the other D. by and
by."
DEMAGOG
"Father," said the small boy, "what is a demagog?"
"A demagog, my son, is a man who can rock the boat himself and
persuade everybody that there's a terrible storm at sea."
DEMOCRACY
ADKINS--"Well, the world is at last safe for democracy."
WATKINS--"Just what is democracy, anyway?"
"A democracy is a form of government where one party doesn't do things
as they ought to be done, and the other party tells how much better
they would be done if it were in power.
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