"Well, if you see two men off in a corner anywhere and one of them looks bored to death, the other is Gabbleton."—Puck.
A man who was a well known killjoy was described as a great athlete. He could throw a wet blanket two hundred yards in any gathering.
See also Conversation; Husbands; Preaching; Public speakers; Reformers.
BORROWERS
A well-known but broken-down Detroit newspaper man, who had been a power in his day, approached an old friend the other day in the Pontchartrain Hotel and said:
"What do you think? I have just received the prize insult of my life. A paper down in Muncie, Ind., offered me a job."
"Do you call that an insult?"