“Well, then, if you have five marbles in your pocket, and take out two, how many will there be left in it?”
“None at all, sir,—there’s a hole in my pocket.”
A.—“Our business is so extensive that we have to keep a man on purpose to thrash the apprentices, and he’s at it all day.”
B.—“That’s nothing to ours! Our establishment is so immense that we have to keep St Bernard dogs in the corridors to look for the customers who lose themselves there!”
A man who had repeatedly called on a nobleman to obtain payment of a debt, was refused access by the well-drilled footman, in the words, “The Baron does not receive to-day.”
“That is all the same to me,” replied the creditor; “I don’t care,—as long as he will give.”
At a Restaurant.