“Would you mind if I went into the smoking-car, dear?” asked the bridegroom in a tender voice.
“What! to smoke, sweetheart?” questioned the bride.
“Oh, dear, no,” replied the young husband; “I want to experience the agony of being away from you, so that the joy of my return will be all the more intensified.”
No End to This Game for Two
Said He: “It is sweeter to give than receive.
Of a whipping this doubtless is true,
But of kissing I cannot believe
It holds good, till I’ve tried it. Can you?”
Said She; “I don’t know; let’s each give and receive,
And so come to proof of the prop.
Now you give, and I’ll take, and we’ll leave
The one to decide who cries ‘Stop!’”
And This in Boston!
A man who has just returned from Boston is “chortling” over a good joke on that correct and literary city. He says that in the reading-room of one of the most exclusive clubs in the Hub there is a sign that reads:
ONLY LOW CONVERSATION PERMITTED HERE
Man Wants but Little, etc.
“Please, mum,” said a tramp, “would you be so kind as to let me have a needle and thread?”