"The dog!" cried the stranger. "What on earth has the dog to do with it?"
"Well," explained the host meditatively, "them cows don't seem to know 'nough to come up and be milked theirselves. The dog, he used to go for 'em an' fetch 'em up."—Edwin Tarrisse.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.—Spurgeon.
LEAP YEAR
A girl looked calmly at a caller one evening and remarked:
"George, as it is leap year—"
The caller turned pale.
"As it is leap year," she continued, "and you've been calling regularly now four nights a week for a long, long time, George, I propose—"