Expected It.


"I'm in a pickle," remarked a young employe at the store.

"I've been expecting for some time that you'd get into a pickle," was the rather forbidding reply.

"Why, sir?"

"Because you are so confoundedly fresh."

Albany Argus.


Ancient Mariner—Holy smoke, where's that young feller gone to? Didn't 'pear quite natral like anyhow.