Very Select.
“Do tell me, Baron, is there not a very clever surgeon living in the village near your castle?”
“I am told so, madam, but ... you understand ... a country practitioner like that ... I cannot put any confidence in him.... I only have him sent for when one of the servants is ill.”
Shopkeeper (catching boy with both hands in the till)—“You young scoundrel, what do you want there?”
Boy—“I ... I ... I’m looking for my cap.”
Shopkeeper—“It’s on your head all the time, gallows-bird.”
Boy—“On my head? Oh, no! you’re out there. That’s not my cap; that’s one I borrowed till I could find my own.”
An Incorruptible Official.