WEATHER INFLUENCES
Two young lawyers, both trying to make reputations as orators, happened to be pitted against each other in argument. Both spoke at great length, and in closing the second speaker remarked that he was sorry to find his brother on the wrong side, for there was every reason why they should agree. "We were raised together, we studied together, we were born on the same day."
"Did I understand you to say that you were born on the same day?" questioned a listener.
"Yes," came the prompt reply.
"On the very same day?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then it must have been a very windy day."
HE FOUND A BETTER PLACE
Mark Twain, while at his summer residence, prepared one evening to take a drive, and expecting to remain out until late, told the stable boy that he need not wait for him. He directed the fellow, however, when he had finished his work to lock the stable and place the key under a stone, the location of which Mr. Clemens described with much exactness. When the humorist reached home after his drive, he was surprised to find that the key was not in the place selected. When his patience had been exhausted, he awoke the boy, who explained, as he started out to find the missing key:
"Mr. Clemens, I found a better place to hide it!"