The Colonel—“Fool!”
Sentinel—“Advance, fool, and give the countersign.”
“Oh, I’m so sorry I could not come to your ‘At Home’ yesterday.”
“Dear me, weren’t you there?”
“Why of course I was—how very silly of me—I quite forgot.”
A theological student was sent one Sunday to supply a vacant pulpit in a Connecticut valley town. A few days after he received a copy of the weekly paper of that place with the following item marked:
“Rev. —— of the senior class at Yale Seminary supplied the pulpit at the Congregational Church last Sunday, and the church will now be closed three weeks for repairs.”