“The explanation is very simple. Because his tailor happens to be sitting at our table.”
A Considerate Youth.—Aunt: “Well, Fritz, I hear you were flogged in school to-day?”
Fritz: “Yes, but it didn’t hurt.”
Aunt: “I thought I heard you cry.”
Fritz: “I did that to please the teacher.”
“You advertise your socks to have fast colours, and now I had on a pair for two days, and for a fortnight I have not been able to get the colour off from my feet.”
“Well, don’t you call that a fast colour? What more can you wish?”
At the Livery Stable.—“How much do you ask for this horse by the hour?”
“One thaler.”
“That is, I trust, counting up to the time when the horse returns? It is quite likely I shall be here somewhat later!”