“Do you ever go away and forget your crutch?”
When too late, he perceived how ridiculous the question was; but I gravely replied:
“Yes, I once went away and left it standing in the corner of a restaurant. I went several hundred yards before I missed it; and I then had a deuce of a time getting back to it.”
Another once thoughtfully asked:
“Now, suppose you had lost your left arm instead of your left leg, where would you have placed your crutch?” He never considered that in such a case it would not have been necessary for me to use a crutch at all.
“Then,” I replied, “I would have used the crutch under the right shoulder, and a cane in my left hand.”
Another idiot, one day, after having asked the usual questions and entertained me with the usual incidents, consolingly remarked:
“Well, you don’t have to pay so much for shoes.”
“I never pay any thing for shoes,” I replied.
“For boots then,” he suggested, with a complacent smile.