"What's that? What the deuce? W—who sent the others?"
"Oh, they didn't send any names. They all said, 'She'll know where they come from.'"
"Well, here, take my card, and tell her these are from the same one who sent the other three boxes."
The little girl was having a great deal of trouble pronouncing some of the words she met with. "Vinegar" had given her the most trouble, and she was duly grieved to know that the village was being entertained by her efforts in this direction.
She was sent one day to the store with the vinegar-jug, to get it filled, and had no intention of amusing the people who were gathered in the store. So she handed the jug to the clerk with:
"Smell the mouth of it and give me a quart."
A young couple had been courting for several years, and the young man seemed to be in no hurry to marry. Finally, one day, he said:
"Sall, I canna marry thee."