"None of yours!" he snapped. "I got a proposition to lay before this firm, and I want to talk to somebody about it."
"And you would rather talk to a gentleman?"
"Yes."
"Well," answered the lady, smiling sweetly, "so would I. But it seems that it's impossible for either one of us to have our wish, so we'll have to make the best of it. State your business, please!"
AN UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR
"Look here," yelled the infuriated bridegroom of a day, dashing wildly into the editor's room of the country weekly; "what do you mean by such an infernal libel on me in your account of our wedding?"
"What's the matter?" asked the editor calmly. "Didn't we say that after your wedding tour you would make your home at the Old Manse?"
"Yes," howled the newly made benedict, "and just see how you've spelled it."
And the editor looked and read:
After their wedding tour the newly married couple will make their home at the Old Man's.