Part 4 (1/2)

MR. BIXBY--Have you noticed how much better I rest after a day's fis.h.i.+ng?

MRS. BIXBY--No; but I have noticed how much easier you lie after a day's fis.h.i.+ng than upon other days.

”Nature never allows anything to run to waist.”

”Humph! You've never seen a Vermont girl of forty.”

”What's the matter here?”

”Man broke his neck.”

”What story did he fall from?”

”Didn't fall--tried to see the top of the building.”

According to a florist's magazine ”Jacks are becoming cheap.”

This may be true, but we have known men who would have been willing to pay $10 for one to put with the two already in their hands.

JOHNNY--What makes you look so tired?

TOMMY--My step-mother is sick end now I'll get licked before every meal. The doctor says she must take exercise on an empty stomach.

BROWN--”Peckhen has arrived safe. I just received a cablegram from him.”

SMITH--”Did he have a rough voyage?”

BROWN--”No; his wife didn't go.”

”Oh, live and let live, my man.”