Angry Father (of the Old School). "I shall cut you off with a shilling!"
The Prodigal. "Not one of the new nickel things, I hope, Father?"
THE COWARD.
Cecilia was knitting by the fire.
"What on earth have you two been doing?" she asked as we came in. "John looks as if he'd been in a boiler explosion."
"Hardly that," I said. "We've been playing with Chris—haven't we, John?"
John gasped.
"No, we haven't," he said. "On the contrary, they have been playing with me, Cecilia."