Finally the proprietor was at liberty,
approached her and said benignantly, "Is there anything you would
like, little girl?"
"Oh, yes, sir, please: I want a diamond ring, and a seal-skin sacque,
a real foreign nobleman, and a pug dog, and a box at the opera, and,
oh, ever so many other things; but all Ma wants is ten cents' worth of
bologna."
_The Highest Price in the Store_
A rich American woman visited a Japanese art shop in Paris. It
happened to be a dull, dark afternoon. She looked at the bronzes,
jewels, drawings and other things, and finally, pointing toward a
dusky corner, she said to the polite young salesman: "How much is that
Japanese idol over there worth?"
The salesman bowed, and answered: "About five hundred thousand francs,
madam. It is the proprietor."
_From Different Points_
"Father, you were born in California, you say?"
"Yes, my son."
"And mother was born in New York ?"
"Yes."
"And I was born in Indiana?"
"Yes, my boy."
"Well, father, don't it beat the Dutch how we all got together!"
_So Son: So Father_?
A small boy who had been very naughty was first reprimanded, then told
that he must take a whipping.
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