"Then why don't you? You've written it Tomie instead of Tommie."
"Oh, as for that," said Tommie, "you told us not to waste anything, and that extra m is just a waste of ink."
GOING INTO A NEW LINE.
"What'll you swap off a three-cent Nicaragua '95 for, Jack?" asked Jack's uncle of the young stamp-collector.
"I won't swap it off for anything, Uncle George, but I tell you what I will do. I'll swap off my whole collection for a goat. Stamps are always the same, but goats—my—they're never the same!"
NOTHING WONDERFUL.
"So you don't think much of Jack the Giant-killer, eh, Bobbie?"
"NO. He was smart. But not particularly wonderful. Why, look at me! I can tire my Pa out in five minutes, and I guess he could lick any giant Jack ever saw."