There! That ought to be enough to make you weep, like you'd been peeling onions.
"Onions! Now there's something I'm particularly fond of," he remarked.
"Ditto," I said, "the only trouble about onions is that when you eat them you have to take so many people into your confidence about it."
Speaking about confidence, what do you think of the sublime assurance of the monkey that lost his hold on the branch of the tree, and fell into the crocodile's waiting jaws? Even then his wits did not desert him.
"I just dropped in for dinner," he said, with an engaging smile.
"It seems to me," remarked a business acquaintance, "that our employees get more assurance every day they live. Now, there's that young bookkeeper of mine. He asked me, early in the week, whether I could let him off to attend his great-aunt's funeral."