"Where could I try this directory?"
"There's one right in there on the desk."
"That big book?"
"Yes."
"I didn't know what that was. I thought it was a dictionary."
The clerk shrieked with merriment. "The dictionary! Well, say, where have you been raised?"
"On the range."
"You mean cowboy?"
"Yes; we don't need directories out there. Does that book tell where everybody lives?"