"They don't answer. What number was it you wanted?"
EXCITABLE PARTY (at telephone)—"Hello? Who is this? Who is this, I say?"
MAN AT OTHER END—"Haven't got time to guess riddles. Tell me yourself who you are."
"I believe," said the impatient man, as he put aside the telephone, "that I'll go fishing."
"Didn't know you cared for fishing."
"I don't ordinarily. But it's the only chance I have of finding myself at the end of a line that isn't busy."
"Has the line been busy?" asked the man with a nickel poised between his thumb and forefinger.