PHIL—"I hope he does that to me. I gave him a quart of brandy in 1918."
Instead of the usual just-before-Christmas letter to Santa Claus, Robbie wrote a prayer letter to God. After enumerating the many and varied presents he wanted very much, he concluded with: "Remember, God, the Lord loveth a cheerful giver."
CHURCH
SCOTT—"What is your notion of an ideal church?"
JACKSON—"One that meddles with neither politics nor religion."
He had been around from church to church trying to find a congenial congregation, and finally he stopped in a little church just as the congregation read with the minister:
"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."