“No; he said it was not necessary.”

“You do not know him?”

“No; he pinched my arms and cheeks.”

“Oh, that is my brother Gustave.”

Tender-hearted

Young Housewife:—“Why Nanny, how can you be so heartless as to throw those poor lobsters at once into boiling water? They ought to be put on in fresh water so they could get used to the heat by degrees!”

When the Tide Comes In

He:—“I am going to take a bottle of sea-water home with me as a souvenir from Norderney!”

She:—“But don’t fill it quite full, or it will burst on us when the tide comes in.”