REPARTEE
"Pa, what is repartee?"
"Oh, merely an insult with its dress-suit on, my son."—Puck.
FIRST STUDENT—"The idea; my napkin is damp!"
SECOND STUDENT—"Perhaps that's because there is so much due on your board."
The big man with the I-know-it-all expression sneeringly watched the little man who was eating from a sack of peanuts.
"Down where I come from we use peanuts to fatten hogs," remarked the big man.