"And what will happen if you tell lies?"
"I shall go to the naughty place," replied the child.
"Are you sure of that?"
"Yes, sir, quite sure."
"Let her be sworn," said the judge; "it is clear she knows a great deal more than I do."
[A STORY FOR BOOKSELLERS]
Calling one day at Saunders and Otley's library, a subscriber was very angry because certain books that he had ordered had not been sent. He was so heated in his indignation that one of the partners could stand it no longer, and told him so.
"I don't know who you are," was the customer's retort, "and I don't want to annoy you personally, as you may not be the one in fault; it's your confounded house I blame. You may be Otley, or you may be Saunders; if you are Saunders, damn Otley! if you are Otley, damn Saunders! I mean nothing personal to you."
[THE EARLY BIRD]
A father chiding his son for not getting up early, told him as an inducement, that a certain man being up in good time, found a purse containing money. "That may be," replied the son, "but he that lost it was up before him."