"Excuse me, sir, but would you kindly give me a few pennies for a bed?"
The man looked at him and said with a characteristic business-like air,
"Vare is dot ped? Let me see it."
A TEACHER'S JOYS
A Philadelphia school-teacher tells this story:
"Last week I was teaching a spelling lesson to a class of little second-graders. The word 'each' occurred, was written, on the board, and from it I expected to derive 'peach,' 'reach,' 'teach,' etc. Pointing to the word, I said, 'Can any child give a sentence using "each"?'
"A hand was unhesitatingly thrust up and a little German girl replied, 'Does your back each?'"
FAMILY PRIDE
A number of little girls were boasting of the rank of their respective families. They had passed from clothes to personal appearance, then to interior furnishings, and finally came to parental dignity. The minister's little girl boasted:
"Every package that comes for my papa is marked D.D."