His brother said: "I buy ditto?"
"Yes, here's de bills."
"Vell, dey stuck me in New York."
So he returned to New York and found that ditto meant the same. He came back home, and his brother meeting him at the depot said:
"Vell, Abie, did you find out vat ditto is?"
And Abie said: "Yes, I find out vat a ditto is—I'm a d—m fool and you're a ditto."
RAYMOND—"What the deuce do you mean by telling Joan that I am a fool?"
GEORGE—"Heavens! I'm sorry—was it a secret?"