"I'd like to see your mistress. Is she engaged?"
"Lord, sir! she's married; been married for twenty years."
Brown—I hear that they use all sorts of materials in the manufacture of illuminating gas, nowadays.
Jones—True. They even make light of the consumer's complaints.
"Me eyes is crossed," sighed Kate. "No, love,"
"Not crossed," cried Pat. "Be jaber,
'Tis jist that aich is jealous of
The beauty av its neighbor."
The other day the head of a boarding-school noticed one of the boys wiping his knife on the table-cloth, and pounced on him at once.
"Is that what you do at home?" he asked indignantly.