"No," was the bland reply.
"Then I say," drawled the mountaineer looking at the others to see the effect of his witticism, "then I say, you're not fit company for man or beast."
FOLLOWING THE SEA
Two Irishmen had taken a day off and had gone on a little pleasure trip to Atlantic City. Walking beside the sea one of them exclaimed:
"Pat, would yer like to follow the sea always?"
"Shure, an' that Oi would," replied Pat, "if Oi could go the whole distance on the boardwalk."
HE RESPECTFULLY SUBSCRIBED
One of the stories attributed to Bishop Potter concerns a young and inexperienced clergyman who had just been called to a city charge. At the end of the first month his salary was paid by a check, and he took it to the bank and passed it in at the paying-teller's window. The official looked at it and then passed it back.
"It's perfectly good," he said, "but I will have to ask you to indorse it."
The young clergyman took his pen and wrote across the face of the check, "I respectfully subscribe to the sentiments herein expressed."