Then he slipped his watch into his vest pocket and walked with his wife out of the hotel. When all danger was past, he said, “Now you see how necessary it is to keep cool.”
The wife for the first time glanced at her husband.
“Yes, William,” she said, “it is a grand thing, but if I were you I would have put on my trousers.”
One evening as the mother of the little niece of Phillips Brooks was tucking her snugly in bed the maid stepped in and said there was a caller waiting in the parlor. The mother told the child to say her prayers and promised that she would be back in a few minutes.
The caller remained only a short time, and when the mother went upstairs again she asked the little girl if she had done as she was bidden.
“Yes, mama, I did and I didn’t,” she said.
“What do you mean by that, dear?”
“Well, mama, I was awfully sleepy, so I just asked God if he wouldn’t excuse me to-night and He said, ‘Oh, don’t mention it, Miss Brooks.’”