Couldn’t Fool Him That Far
Years ago, when telephones were still a novelty, a farmer came to town one day and called on a lawyer friend of his whom he supplied with butter, and who had had a telephone recently put in his office.
“Need any butter this morning?” asked the farmer.
“Well, I don’t know,” answered the lawyer. “Wait a minute. I’ll ask my wife about it.”
After speaking through the ’phone he went on; “No; my wife says no.”
The farmer’s face was a study for a moment. Then he broke out with: “Look-a-here, Mr. Lawyer, I may be a ‘Rube’ and have my whiskers full of hay and hayseed, but I’m not such a big fool as to believe that your wife is in that box!”
And They Wondered!
At a banquet held in a room, the walls of which were adorned with many beautiful paintings, a well-known college president was called upon to respond to a toast. In the course of his remarks, wishing to pay a compliment to the ladies present, and designating the paintings with one of his characteristic gestures, he said: “What need is there of these painted beauties when we have so many with us at this table?”
She Had Him That Time
It was the same old story of a man who refused to tell his wife the outcome of a business transaction in which, naturally, she took a deep interest.