"Why worry?" said another member of the firm. "We are all here."
"I'll clean th' snow off yer walk for a quarter."
"Why, I just paid a quarter to have it cleaned."
"Tain't half done."
"Come, come, that isn't a nice way to abuse a fellow worker."
"Oh, dat's all right—he's me pardner."
A bright German gentleman, retired from business, relates the following little anecdote:
"Going down to New York the other night on the boat," said he, "I got chatting with a German acquaintance, and asked him what he was doing.