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.