Patrick had called on his Betsy and she gave him a handsome helping of her special make of apple pie. Patrick was loud in its praise.
“I tried a new way,” said Betsy, beaming. “I put a few gooseberries in to flavor it.”
“Begorra!” cried Patrick. “If a few gooseberries give so good a flavor to an apple pie, what a darlint of an apple pie it would be made o’ gooseberries entoirely!”
PROVED BY EXPERIMENT.
Mouldy Mike—These ’ere newspapers is just a pack o’ lies, that’s wot they are.
Ragged Robert—Wot yeh been readin’.
“I read an account of a feller from New York wot went inter a big hotel in a small town, an’ said he wanted to buy the hotel, an’ made ’em an offer, an’ give ’em a check wot wasn’t no good, an’ lived there a week on the fat o’ the land ’fore he had to light out w’en the check came back, an’ it never cost him a cent—that’s wot the paper said.”