The electric storm that had been gathering broke at this moment. A bolt of lightning hit the telephone wires. The gentleman was hurled violently under his desk. Presently, he crawled forth in a dazed condition, and regarded the repair man plaintively.
"That's her!" he declared. "The telephone works fine."
REFORM
Abe Jones was a colored man who made a living by chicken-stealing. He was converted at a camp meeting. When the elder was receiving testimonies from the mourners' bench, he at last called on Abe:
"Brother," he exhorted, "won't you tell the congregation now what the Lord has done for you?"
Abe got to his feet awkwardly, and mumbled his response in a tone tinged with bitterness:
"It looks as though the Lawd done ruint me."
RELIABILITY
The Southern lady saw old 'Rastus setting out with his fishing tackle for a day on the river, and she deemed it a fitting time to rebuke him for his notorious idleness, since she and everybody else knew that the entire family was supported by the industry of 'Rastus' old wife as a washerwoman.