"Guess we gotter stand up, Maria," said Uncle Si, as they stepped aboard the lake steamer, and found all the chairs taken. "There don't seem to be no cheers fer us to set in."
At this a fresh young college boy got up and proposed to his comrades that they give "Three cheers for Uncle Si."
THE UNPLEASANT PART OF IT.
"Well, Johnnie," said the visitor, "I suppose you'll begin going to school again very soon."
"Yes."
"Do you like going to school?"
"Yes; it's staying there after I get there that I don't like."
The Colonel had for a servant a darky that at times was inclined to grow lazy. For a long while the Colonel had noted this, and had scolded and threatened, but all to no purpose. One day there was a party of gentlemen dining with him, and among them a military man. The Colonel had entertained the company with anecdotes, and finally came around to the subject of his lazy servant.