Was Prepared
Uncle (before examination):—“Are you prepared, Karl?”
Student:—“Oh yes, for the worst.”
Worse Than He First Thought
Student (at a tavern hunting for his overcoat):—“My overcoat has been stolen! Well, the thing isn’t worth much. Luckily the tailor has not been paid yet, but there were fifty pfennigs in the pocket! It’s a perfect outrage!”
CHAPTER XIV
Women and Children
Different Ways of Wooing
The Diplomat says:—“Oh, let us form an everlasting alliance.”
The Soldier:—“You gave my heart an incurable wound; or ‘you came; I saw; you conquered.’”