"Yes," he replied joyously. "When there"s a good stiff wind blowing we set them to clean the outsides of the windows on the eighth floor!"
NO EFFECT
"You tell me," said the judge, "that this is the person who knocked you down with his motor-car. Could you swear to the man?"
"I did," returned the complainant, eagerly, "but he only swore back at me and drove on."
A FUTURE FINANCIER
"Ma," exclaimed young Teddie, bursting into the house, "Mrs. Johnson said she would give me a penny if I told her what you said about her!"
"I never heard of such a thing!" answered his mother indignantly.
"You"re a very good boy not to have told! I wouldn"t have her think I even mentioned her. Here"s an apple, sonny, for being such a wise little lad!"
"I should think I am, ma! When she showed me the penny I told her that what you said was something awful, and worth sixpence at least!"
A BAD CASE
"Rather absent-minded, isn"t he?"
"Extremely so. Why, the other night when he got home he knew there was something he wanted to do, but he couldn"t remember what it was until he had sat up over an hour trying to think."
"And did he finally remember it?"
"Yes, he discovered that he wanted to go to bed early."
BLACK SUPERSt.i.tION
_Architect:_ "Have you any suggestions for the study, Mr. Quickrich?"
_Quickrich:_ "Only that it must be brown. Great thinkers, I understand, are generally found in a brown study."
HALF A DUCK DEEP
Coming to a river with which he was unfamiliar, a traveller asked a youngster if it was deep.
"No," replied the boy, and the rider started to cross, but soon found that he and his horse had to swim for their lives.
When the traveller reached the other side he turned and shouted: "I thought you said it wasn"t deep?"
"It isn"t," was the reply; "it only takes grandfather"s ducks up to their middles!"
COULDN"T RESIST IT
"Look here," began the youth, as he entered a butcher"s shop, and displayed two lovely-looking black-and-blue eyes, "you have fresh beef for sale?"
"I have," responded the butcher.
"And fresh beef is good for black eyes, is it not?"
"It is."
"Very well. I have the eyes, you have the beef. Do you think you can sell me a pound or so without asking how I got ornamented?"
"I"ll do my best, sir."
The butcher cut off the meat, and received his money without another look at his customer. At the last moment, however, the old Adam proved too strong for him.
"Look here," he said, handing back the cash, "I"ll make you a present of the beef. Now tell me all about the fight."
"Do you know anything about palmistry, Herbert?" she asked.
"Oh, not much," he answered, "although I had an experience last night which might be considered a remarkable example of palmistry. I happened to glance at the hand of a friend, and I immediately predicted he would presently become the possessor of a considerable amount of money. Before he left the room he had a nice little sum handed to him."
"And you foretold that from his hand?"
"Yes, it had four aces in it."
Young Harold was late for Sunday-school and the minister inquired the cause. "I was going fishing, but father wouldn"t let me," announced the lad.
"That"s the right kind of a father to have," replied the reverend gentleman. "Did he explain the reason why he would not let you go?"
"Yes, sir. He said there wasn"t bait enough for two."
"My good man, you had better take the trolley car home."
"Sh" no ushe! My wife wouldn"t let me--hic--keep it in th" house."