"That's right," assented the husband. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out a ten dollar bill. "Here you are. Next time you go to the city get a new one. Get a good one this time; one that'll last."
MEN NOT EQUAL
Some years ago the Chief Justice of the United States found that the tire of one of his wheels was loose and kept slipping off. Coming to a little stream he drove into it and got one little section of the wheel wet; then drove out and backed his horse, and the same part of the wheel went into the water again. Thus he kept going backward and forward, all the time wetting the same part of the wheel.
A negro saw the situation and told the justice to back into the water again. He did so, and the negro took hold of the spokes of the wheel and, turning it slowly, soon had it wet all around.
"Why, I never thought of that," cried the chief justice.
"Well," replied the darky, "some men just nat'ly have more sense than others."
CRUELTY OF SCIENCE
A little boy was once given two images of plaster, coated on the outside with pink sugar. He wanted to eat the images, but he was warned on no account to do so.
"They are poison," he was told. "If you eat them, it will kill you."
However, the boy was dubious. He been cheated before this by grown-up people. Finally he had a young friend to spend the day with him, and that night it was discovered that one of the images had disappeared. His mother, nearly frantic, rushed to him.