For months Pat, who lived in the oil country, had been drilling unsuccessfully in his back yard. One day his friends were astonished to see him rush from his door cheering loudly.
“What’s the idea, Pat?” he was asked.
“Haven’t ye heard the good news?”
“Good Lord! You haven’t struck oil at last, have you?”
“No, not yet. But didn’t ye notice how the price of it went up yesterday?”
Pat and Mike were engaged in a dispute in a cemetery one day. “Well,” said Pat, “I don’t like this cemetery at all, at all.”
“Well,” said Mike, “I think it is a fine cemetery.”