“It had lips,” she said, “but it could not——”
“Speak,” once more replied the children.
“It had a nose, but it could not——”
“Wipe it,” shouted the children; and the lesson had to stop a moment.
The Wrong One
A young man had been calling now and then on a young lady, when one night, as he sat in the parlor waiting for her to come down, her mother entered the room instead, and asked him in a very grave, stern way what his intentions were.
He turned very red, and was about to stammer some incoherent reply, when suddenly the young lady called down from the head of the stairs:
“Mamma, mamma, that is not the one.”
A Good Pair of Boots
“You know,” said a “smart” young man to a girl, “some one has said that ‘if you would make a lasting pair of boots take for the sole the tongue of a woman.’”