A vocation is something you do for a living, an avocation something
you do for a while, a vacation something you couldn't stick at very
long without being dead broke and dead tired.
JUDGE--"Six months!"
COS COB CON--"Ah, wot a relief! Now I kin stop worrying about where
I'm going ter spend de summer."
VALUE
There, little dollar, don't you cry;
You _may_ buy something by and by.
A Pennsylvania farmer was the owner of a good Alderney cow. A
stranger, having admired the animal, asked the farmer: "What will you
take for your cow?"
The farmer scratched his head for a moment, and then said: "Look
a-here, be you the tax assessor or has she been killed by the
railroad?"
CALLER--"It's a good thing to teach your boy the value of money, as
you are doing."
HOST--"Well, I don't know. He used to behave for ten cents, but now he
demands a quarter."
FOOTPAD--"Your money or your life!"
MRS. TIGHTLY--"That's reasonable enough, Jake! You've got only 50
cents."
VANITY
Little Beryl, aged ten, was a very pretty and intelligent girl, but
she had one fault--she was inclined to be vain. At every available
opportunity she gazed at herself complacently in the looking-glass.
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