“Then,” said the hostess, “you’ll put some nuts and candies in your pockets, won’t you?”
The little girl shook her head regretfully.
“They’re full, too,” she said.
“My dear, I couldn’t match that dress goods.”
“You couldn’t?”
“No, and after what the various clerks said to me, I can’t see why a person in tolerable circumstances should want to match it.”
A boy in a certain school would persist in saying “have went.” One day the teacher kept him in, saying, “While I am out of the room you may write ‘have gone’ fifty times.” When the teacher returned she found he had dutifully performed the task, but on the other side of the paper was a message from the absent one: “I have went. John White.”