"Before we were married you said you'd lay down your life for me," she sobbed.
"I know it," he returned solemnly; "but this confounded flat is so tiny that there's no place to lay anything down."
FLATTERY
With a sigh she laid down the magazine article upon Daniel O'Connell. "The day of great men," she said, "is gone forever."
"But the day of beautiful women is not," he responded.
She smiled and blushed. "I was only joking," she explained, hurriedly.
MAGISTRATE (about to commit for trial)—"You certainly effected the robbery in a remarkably ingenious way; in fact, with quite exceptional cunning."
PRISONER—"Now, yer honor, no flattery, please; no flattery, I begs yer."