"Yes," said Jimmie. "You see, ma'am, my papa says red beef will give me red cheeks, and I'm afraid brown bread will make a darky out of me."
"Pat," said Tommie to the gardener, "what is nothing?"
"There ain't any such thing as nothin'," replied Pat; "becaze whin ye find nothin', and come to look at it, there ain't nothin' there."
An absent-minded old gentleman went into a shop to buy a new cane.
"That's a very nice one," he said, picking one up from the counter. "How much is that?"
"That's the one you brought in with you. You just laid it down there, sir," said the shopkeeper.
"Oh, really?" said the old gentleman. "Then I don't need a new one. Good-day." And he walked out.