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An officer and his wife went to the baths together, and both were bathed by the orderly, whom they evidently did not consider a man.

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"And now he appeared with all his decorations."

"And what decorations has he got?"

"He has a bronze medal for the census of 1897."

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A government clerk gave his son a thrashing because he had only obtained five marks in all his subjects at school. It seemed to him not good enough. When he was told that he was in the wrong, that five is the highest mark obtainable, he thrashed his son again—out of vexation with himself.

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A very good man has such a face that people take him for a detective; he is suspected of having stolen shirt-studs.