"Oh, yes, indeed I did," said Tommie, "and he gave me ten cents for being such a good boy."
"Did he? And what did you do then?"
"Stepped on the other and apologized again, but it didn't work."
A JOKE UNDER THE SEA.
"Let's get up a minstrel show," said the Shad to the Shark.
"All right," said the Shark. "I've got a splendid mouth for tambo."
"And think of my capacity for the bones, eh?" said the Shad.
And the minnows in the school that was swimming by laughed so heartily that they swam down the Shark's throat without knowing it.