One
morning she said to her husband:
"Did you have any mail this morning, dear?"
"Only a circular," he answered as he bit into a fine brown slice of
toast.
"Huh," said the wife. "By the way, did you mail the letters I gave you
yesterday?"
"Sure I did," was the righteously indignant reply.
"Well," answered wifie, with an eloquent smile, "it's funny, then, you
had no letters this morning, because one of those I gave you to mail
was addressed to you--just as a sort of key."
Callers were at the door and Bobbie was told to show them into the
parlor. He did so, and while his mother was fixing herself up, he
sat there rather embarrassed. Presently, seeing the visitors glancing
around the room, he said:
"Well, what do you think of our stuff, anyway?"
KIND FRIEND (to composer who has just played his newly written _revue_
masterpiece)--"Yes, I've always liked that little thing. Now play one
of your own, won't you?"
Evelyn is very cowardly, and her father decided to have a serious talk
with his little daughter.
"Father," she said at the close of his lecture, "when you see a cow,
ain't you 'fraid?"
"No, certainly not, Evelyn."
"When you see a bumblebee, ain't you 'fraid?"
"No!" with scorn.
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