THE CONVALESCENT
New Curate (tenderly). "My good man, what induced you to send for me?"
Oldest Inhabitant. "What does he say, Betty?"
Betty. "Says what the deuce did you send for him, for!!"
The Merest Accident.—She. "So you failed in your vivâ voce exam.?" He. "Yes; but it was purely from absence of mind."