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A.E. Clark, editor of The City Bulletin, of Columbus, Ohio, was with a
friend who was campaigning for the Red Cross. The friend knocked at a
door and a voice said, "Come in."
His friend tried the door, then shouted, "It's locked!"
"Come in," repeated the voice, and the campaigner replied:
"It's locked."
"Come in."
"It's locked."
At that point a woman put her head out of a window next door and said:
"There's no one at home. You're talking to the parrot."
PARTNERSHIP
The partners of a well-known Stock Exchange house were having a dinner
conference at an uptown hotel. One of them appeared worried during the
progress of the meal, and finally he was queried as to the cause of
his fit of abstraction.
"I just happened to remember that I neglected to lock the safe before
I left the office," he replied.
"Why worry?" said another member of the firm. "We are all here."
"I'll clean th' snow off yer walk for a quarter."
"Why, I just paid a quarter to have it cleaned."
"Tain't half done."
"Come, come, that isn't a nice way to abuse a fellow worker."
"Oh, dat's all right--he's me pardner."
A bright German gentleman, retired from business, relates the
following little anecdote:
"Going down to New York the other night on the boat," said he, "I got
chatting with a German acquaintance, and asked him what he was doing.
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