"Yes, it often gets away down to forty-five below zero," replied the native.
"Don't see how you stand it," said the Congressman.
"Oh, I always spend my winters in the South," explained the guide.
"Go South, eh? Well, well! That's enterprising. And where do you go?"
"Grand Rapids," said the guide.
SCRIPTURAL
The college boys played a mean trick on "Prexy" by pasting some of the leaves of his Bible together. He rose to read the morning lesson, which might have been as follows:
"Now Johial took unto himself a wife of the daughters of Belial." (He turned a leaf.) "She was eighteen cubits in height and ten cubits in breadth." (A pause, and careful scrutiny of the former page.)
He resumed: "Now Johial took unto himself a wife," etc. (Leaf turned.) "She was eighteen cubits in height and ten cubits in breadth, and was pitched within and without—" (Painful pause and sounds of subdued mirth.) "Prexy" turns back again in perplexity.
"Young gentlemen, I can only add that 'Man is fearfully and wonderfully made'—and woman also."