"The man that argues with a woman is a fool," said Mr. Gadspur.
"I agree with you," said Mr. Twobble.
"And if he expects to have the last word he's an even bigger fool."
"Quite so, quite so. What did you and the 'Missus' quarrel about this morning?"
* * *
TOO GOOD
"Well, Alice," said a Southern woman to a coloured girl formerly in her employ, "I hear that you have married."
"Yassum, Ah done got me a husband now."
"Is he a good provider, Alice?"
"Yassum. He's powerful good provider, but Ah's powerful skeered he's gwine git catched at it."