The visiting missionary at an almshouse stopped for a moment to speak to a very old lady and inquire after her health and welfare. “Thank you, sir,” replied the old lady. “Yes, indeed, I’ve a great deal to be thankful for. I’ve two teeth left and they’re opposite each other.”
A New Kind of Bait
After weeks of waiting and longing for the sport, rods, reels, gaff, creel—everything was in readiness for a week’s trout-fishing.
The young wife, smiling joyously, hurried into the room, extending toward her husband some sticky, speckled papers.
“For goodness’ sake,” he exclaimed, “what on earth are you doing with those old fly-papers?”
“I saved them for you from last summer, dear,” she answered. “You know you said you always had to buy flies when you went fishing.”
He Could Supply Specimens
“And what did my little darling do in school today?” a mother asked of her young son—a “second-grader.”
“We had Nature study, and it was my turn to bring a specimen,” said the boy.
“That was nice. What did you do?”