A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.
"Jimmie, you wasted your breath talking to old Mr. Wilbur this morning. He's as deaf as a post."
"I know that," said Jimmie, with a smile, "but posts don't have ten-cent pieces in their pockets to give little boys, and Mr. Wilbur does."
"Is this a sleeping-car, papa?"
"Yes, Johnny."
"Does it travel all night?"
"Yes."
"Humph! Must do all its sleeping in the day-time."
GETTING A FEW POINTS IN NATURAL HISTORY.