THE OLD GENTLEMAN WHO WILL NOT SMILE.
“Would you be kind enough to give me your autograph?” And he pulled out of his pocket a beautiful autograph book.
“Well,” I said to the secretary in a whisper, “this old gentleman is extremely kind to ask for my autograph, for I am certain he has not enjoyed my lecture.”
“What makes you think so?”
“Why, he never smiled once.”
“Oh, poor old gentleman,” said the secretary; “he is stone deaf.”
Many a lecturer must have met this man.