With a grin, the boy replied: "All right, come along," and he led the man to a building a half-block away.
The man paid the promised fee, remarking, however, "That was a half-dollar easily earned."
"Sure!" responded the lad. "But you mustn't fergit that bank-directors is paid high in Noo Yawk."
HE—"We'll have to give up our intended summer trip. My account at the bank is already overdrawn."
SHE—"Oh, John, you are such a wretched financier. Why don't you keep your account in a bank that has plenty of money?"
A Hebrew by the name of Cohen went into a bank one day and asked the cashier to discount his note. The bank cashier said:
"Mr. Cohen, I can't discount that note unless you get some one you know, a responsible man, to indorse it."
Cohen said to the cashier: "You know me, und you're responsible; you indorse it."