A CAPE COD fisherman calls his boat “The Kiss,” because it is nothing but a smack.—Puck.
MANY large wagers are chronicled from time to time, but Queen Elizabeth still remains the greatest Bet in history.—Exchange.
DEALER (to clerk): I’m going to make those boys’ diagonal suits fifteen dollars to-morrow.
CLERK: Fifteen dollars! Why, we’ve been selling them for ten dollars right along.
DEALER: I know it; but I’m going to give away a baseball bat with each one of them free of charge.—Detroit Free Press.
LADY (to negro cook): Can you poach eggs, Sambo?
SAMBO: ’Deed I kin, missy, when dey grows up.—Time.
CHOLLY: I say, Binx, did you ever witness a burial at sea?
BINX: No, never saw a burial, but we had a wake behind us all the way over last trip.—Harper’s Bazar.
“WHAT’S up, Billy?”