This the
latter did, and, as predicted by the servant, he did return home
feeling much better.
"Youse better, sah ?" asked the man, meeting his master at the door.
"Very much better, thank you, Julian."
The servant grinned. "What did I tell you, sah? I knowed you'd be
all right jest as soon as you got that sermon outer your system."
_Enthusiasm Squelched_
An enthusiastic citizen, about to visit Europe, was rejoicing over
the fact and the pleasures to come.
"How delightful it will be," he said to his wife, "to tread the
bounding billow and inhale the invigorating oxygen of the sea, the
sea, the boundless sea! I long to see it! To breathe in great
drafts of life-giving air. I shall want to stand every moment on the
prow of the steamer with my mouth open----"
"You probably will, dear," interrupted his wife encouragingly.
"That's the way all the ocean travelers do."
_Definitive_
The schoolmaster was trying to explain the meaning of the word
"conceited," which had occurred in the course of the reading lesson.
"Now, boys," he said, "suppose that I was always boasting of my
learning--that I knew a good deal o' Latin, for instance, or that my
personal appearance was--that I was very good-looking, y' know--what
should you say I was?"
Straightforward Boy; "Sure, sir, I'd say you was a liar, sir!"
_Wanted to Give Her Every Chance_
The clerk was most obliging, but the young woman customer was hard to
please.
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