Part 2 (1/2)

”Yes, but he took advantage of his official position to effect it.”

”How was that?”

”Why, he is chairman of the board of public works and he advertised for proposals.”

”Are your folks well to do?”

”No. They're hard to do.”

”If you should die, what would you do with your body?”

”I don't know.”

”I'd sell mine to a medical student.”

”Then you'd be giving yourself dead away.”

”I was at the track to-day, Percy, and there was a horse down there with the itch. He came up to the post, and they scratched him.”

HE--”Yes, she is living under an a.s.sumed name.”

SHE--”Horrible! What is it?”

HE--”The one she a.s.sumed immediately after her husband married her!”

BIGGS--”I hear the jail was afire this morning?”

BAGGS--”Naw; it was only a sell.”

Love they say is blind. Well: if so marriage must be an eye-opener.