"Yes, there is. What are you crying about, something that happened at home or something that happened in a novel?"
It was married men's night at the revival meeting.
"Let all you husbands who have troubles on your minds stand up!" shouted the preacher at the height of his spasm.
Instantly every man in the church arose except one.
"Ah!" exclaimed the preacher, peering out at this lone individual, who occupied a chair near the door. "You are one in a million."
"It ain't that," piped back this one helplessly as the rest of the congregation gazed suspiciously at him: "I can't get up—I'm paralyzed!"
JUDGE—"Your innocence is proved. You are acquitted."
PRISONER (to the jury)—"Very sorry, indeed, gentlemen, to have given you all this trouble for nothing."