"Not under the circumstances," said the other man. "That was a new cook he was escorting out."
HOODOOED
Appealing to a lady for aid, an old darky told her that through the Dayton flood he had lost everything he had in the world, including his wife and six children.
"Why," said the lady, "I have seen you before and I have helped you. Were you not the colored man who told me you had lost your wife and six children by the sinking of the Titanic?"
"Yeth, ma'am, dat wuz me. Mos' unfort'nit man dat eber wuz. Kain't keep a fam'ly nohow."
SAFE DEPOSIT
An old lady, who was sitting on the porch of a hotel at Asheville, North Carolina, where also there were a number of youngsters, was approached by one of them with this query:
"Can you crack nuts?"
The old lady smiled and said: "No, my dear, I can't. I lost all my teeth years ago."
"Then," said the boy, extending two hands full of walnuts, "please hold these while I go and get some more."