The unlucky lad silently
began to make preparation for departure. "Aw, wait a while," urged the
other. "You might be lucky if you keep at it."
"There ain't no use," was the disgusted reply, "my darned worm ain't
tryin'."
"Some men," said Uncle Eben, "goes fishin' not so much foh de sake of
de fish as foh de chance to loaf without bein' noticed."
FLATTERY
The man who is not injured by flattery is as hard to find as the one
who is improved by criticism.
Flattery is a sort of moral peroxide--it turns many a woman's head.
"Oi hate flattery," said O'Brien the other day. "Flattery makes ye
think ye are betther than ye are, an' no man livin' can iver be that."
THE CONVERSATIONALIST (to well-known author)--"I'm so delighted to
meet you! It was only the other day I saw something of yours, about
something or other, in some magazine."
WILBUR (indicating a couple in the background)--"Funny that such a
stunning-looking woman should marry such a dub as that."
FLATTE--"Well, I don't know. No accounting for those things. Now, you
take your wife--she's a ripper."--_Life_.
The admiration which Bob felt for his Aunt Margaret included all her
attributes.
"I don't care much for plain teeth like mine, Aunt Margaret," said
Bob, one day, after a long silence, during which he had watched her in
laughing conversation with his mother.
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