The youngster laughed. “Yes, he did, too! He gave me ten cents!”
Not to be outdone, the candidate gave the little one another nickel and picking her up in his arms, kissed her.
“Did he kiss you, too?” he asked genially.
“Yes, he did, sir,” responded the little girl, “and he kissed ma, too.”
The owner of a dry-goods store heard a new clerk say to a customer, “No, madam, we have not had any for a long time.”
With a fierce glance at the clerk the smart employer rushed up to the woman and said: “We have plenty of everything in reserve ma’am; plenty upstairs.”
The customer and the clerk looked dazed. Then the proprietor, seeing that something was wrong, said to the customer: “Excuse me, what did you ask for?”
The woman simply replied, “Why, I said to your clerk that we hadn’t had any rain lately.”