--_Sara Teasdale_.
LISPING
A young lady who lisped very badly was treated by a specialist,
and learned to say the sentence: "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for
Soldiers."
She repeated it to her friends, and was praised upon her masterly
performance.
"Yeth, but ith thuth an ectheedingly difficult remark to work into a
converthathion--ethpethially when you conthider that I have no thither
Thuthie."
LOGIC
"Sedentary work," said the college lecturer, "tends to lessen the
endurance."
"In other words," butted in the smart student, "the more one sits the
less one can stand."
"Exactly," retorted the lecturer; "and if one lies a great deal one's
standing is lost completely."
Two men were hotly discussing the merits of a book. Finally, one
of them, himself an author, said to the other: "No, John, you can't
appreciate it. You never wrote a book yourself."
"No," retorted John, "and I never laid an egg, but I'm a better judge
of an omelet than any hen."
LONDON
A teacher asked her class to write an essay on London. She was
surprised to read the following in one attempt:
"The people of London are noted for their stupidity."
The young author was asked how he got that idea.
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