“Mistress’s compliments, and she would like to know if you will come to spend to-morrow evening?”
Mrs B.—“Very pleased, I am sure.... Are there more people coming?”
Housemaid—“I have them here on a list.”
Mrs B.—“Let me see.... Why, there are at least thirty names here!”
Housemaid—“Yes, but most of them know that the children have the chicken-pox, and mistress was reckoning on that!”
At the Solicitor’s.
“Good-morning, sir! May I ask you to advise me what compensation is due when another person’s dog does damage in any one’s house?”
“Certainly, sir. The injured party is entitled to two guilders compensation.”
“May I ask you for that sum, then? It is your dog that I have to complain of.”