A conductor and a brakeman on a Montana railroad differ as to the proper pronunciation of the name Eurelia. Passengers are often startled upon arrival at his station to hear the conductor yell:
"You're a liar! You're a liar!"
And then from the brakeman at the other end of the car:
"You really are! You really are!"
MOTHER—"Oh, Bobby, I'm ashamed of you. I never told stories when I was a little girl."
BOBBY—"When did you begin, then, Mamma?"—Horace Zimmerman.
The sages of the general store were discussing the veracity of old Si Perkins when Uncle Bill Abbott ambled in.
"What do you think about it, Uncle Bill?" they asked him. "Would you call Si Perkins a liar?"