Malicious Painter:—“Just think, I received three orders for portraits to-day!”
Friend:—“There, now you see, people are not as bad as you paint them.”
An Indirect Cure
Doctor:—“Well, you seem to be quite well again! Did you take my pills every day?”
Countryman:—“Oh, yes, I took them all right. You see, it was this way, doctor. My black hen got at the box of pills and ate them all up. So I killed the hen and ate her, and so I got well again.”
A Practical Savings-bank
“If I take my cod-liver oil nicely, mother always gives me five pfennig.”
“And what do you do with so much money?”
“Oh, mother puts it into my bank and buys more cod-liver oil with it.”