"
_See also_ Politicians.
PUBLISHERS
He was a typical gamin, so diminutive in stature that I had to stoop
to interrogate him, which I did in this way:
"Where do you get your papers, my little man?"
"Oh, I buy 'em in the Times alley."
"What do you pay for them?"
"Fi' cents."
"What do you sell them for?"
"Fi' cents."
"You don't make anything at that?"
"Nope."
"Then what do you sell them for?"
"Oh, just to get a chance to holler."
PUNCTUALITY
_Epitaph for Any New Yorker_
I, who all my life had hurried,
Came to Peter's crowded gate;
And, as usual, was worried,
Fearing that I might be late
So, when I began to jostle
(I forgot that I was dead)
Patient smiled the old Apostle:
"Take your Eternity," he said.
--_Christopher Morley_.
_See also_ Alarm clocks.
PUNCTUATION
"Can't you stretch a point?"
"Certainly," said the period. And thus was born the comma.
A high-school girl said to her father the other night:
"Daddy, I've got a sentence here I'd like you to punctuate. You know
something about punctuation, don't you?"
"A little," said her cautious parent, as he took the slip of paper she
handed him.
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