He—“You’ve got to have a pull to get ahead.”
She—“Yes, and you’ve got to have a head to get a pull.”
A Southern lawyer tells of a case that came to him at the outset of his career, wherein his principal witness was a darky named Jackson, supposed to have knowledge of certain transactions not at all to the credit of his employer, the defendant.
“Now, Jackson,” said the lawyer, “I want you to understand the importance of telling the truth when you are put on the stand. You know what will happen, don’t you, if you don’t tell the truth?”
“Yassir,” was Jackson’s reply; “in dat case I expects our side will win de case.”
The Suitor—“They say that Love is blind.”
The Heiress—“But nowadays he has a marvelous sense of touch.”