"You just ordered eggs," said the vegetarian. "An egg is practically meat; because it eventually becomes a bird."
"The kind of eggs I eat never become birds," answered the stranger quietly.
"Good heavens!" cried the vegetarian. "What kind of eggs do you eat?
"Principally boiled eggs," said the stranger.
KNEW HIS BUSINESS
Two young men entered a café of a well-known city hotel the other evening. It happened that a new and very young wine clerk was behind the bar and the two customers resolved to have some fun with him.
"Give me," said one, "a seltzer water."
"And I," said the other, "will have some vicious water."
Without hesitating, the barkeeper placed a bottle of absinthe before the last man to order.
"What's this?" he asked.