“Ah! Then it is your property that my dog has damaged? Nothing can be fairer than that I should pay you the legal compensation. Here are twenty cents.”
“Twenty cents!”
“Yes. As thus:—
| Your claim is | fl. 2 0 |
| My fee, for advice | 1 80 |
| Balance due to you | 0 20.” |
A Slight Mistake.
A man, who thought himself a scientist, gave a public lecture on electricity. The hall was at first tolerably well filled, but the audience were not long in finding out with whom they had to do, and began to go out one by one. At last only one man remained, who listened with the greatest attention, and thus encouraged the lecturer to continue. At the end of half-an-hour he interrupted himself, and said politely—
“I beg your pardon, sir, but I hope I am not trespassing on your kindness? I shall have finished in ten minutes.”
“Ten minutes! You can go on for another hour—or all night, if you like—so long as you don’t forget that you engaged me by the hour!”
The unhappy man perceived too late that it was the cabman who had driven him down to the lecture-hall.