A. (to a young doctor): “How many rooms have you?”
B.: “First, there is a waiting-room.”
A.: “Pardon me for interrupting you. What do you call a waiting-room? Is it a room in which your patients wait for you, or one in which you wait for patients?”
A.: “Dr. Krampel has saved my life.”
B.: “I did not know that you were ever in his treatment.”
A.: “No, when I consulted him he advised me to go to another physician.”
Poetry and Prose.—“Tell me what it was that inspired you to write this glorious poem?”
Poet: “My youngest needed a new suit of clothes.”
Lady (roguishly to her partner): “So you too are a conductor on the road to Hades?”
Young Physician: “You mistake, I am less than that—in fact, merely a brakesman!”