“Yes, sir, very famous and very interesting.”
“Would you have the kindness to tell me,” said the stranger, “whether there are any legends or other dreadful tales associated with this mountain?”
“A whole lot, sir, only recently two young men went up on this side and never came back.”
“Horrible! What became of them?”
“Why, they went down on the other side.”
His Occasional Look
In the waiting-room of a small railway station, a crowd of noisy young fellows were making fun of a student, who was walking impatiently up and down, but stopped from time to time to look into the mirror. At last the noisiest of the crowd called out:
“Say, are you in love with yourself, that you look into that glass so often?”
“I only want a look at a gentleman now and then,” was the student’s calm reply.