Is there anything I can do for
you?"
"No, thank ye, mem," replied the submerged one. "Ye mustn't mind it
if I don't return the call, will ye? I haven't any time to go slummm'
meself."
_Her Little Game_
As a married couple were walking down one of the main thoroughfares of
a city the husband noted the attention which other women obtained from
passers-by, and remarked to his better half:
"Folks never look at you. I wish I had married some one better
looking."
The woman tartly replied: "It's your fault. Do you think a man will
stare at me when you're walking with me? You step behind and see
whether men don't look at me."
The husband hung back about a dozen yards, and for the length of the
street was surprised to see every man his wife passed stare hard at
her and even turn around and look after her.
"Sure, lassie!" he exclaimed as he rejoined her, "I was wrong and take
it back. I'll never say aught about your looks again."
The wife had made a face at every man she met.
_A Case of Adaptation_
Two dusky small boys were quarreling; one was pouring forth a volume
of vituperous epithets, while the other leaned against a fence and
calmly contemplated him.
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