“Dr. Dash, through indisposition, is unable to attend to his classes to-day.”
The students erased one letter in this notice, making it read:
“Dr. Dash, through indisposition, is unable to attend to his lasses to-day.”
But it happened a few minutes later that the professor returned for a box he had forgotten. Amid a roar of laughter he detected the change in his notice, and, approaching the blackboard, calmly erased one letter in his turn.
Now the notice read:
“Dr. Dash, through indisposition, is unable to attend to his asses to-day.”
The man in the smoker was boasting of his unerring ability to tell from a man’s looks exactly what city he came from. “You, for example,” he said to the man next to him, “you are from New Orleans?” He was right.
“You, my friend,” turning to the man on the other side of him, “I should say you are from Chicago?” Again he was right.