Saved! What care I for five paltry pounds now that our rat has recovered from his indisposition and has hastened to re-visit his property? The phosphor paste, like arsenic, has added brightness to his eye and brought a beautiful lustre to his smooth brown coat. He has softened in his manner and tends towards friendship. There is less of the grand air, less assertion of the vast gap which yawns between the landlord and the tenant. Presently, if I continue to prove worthy of his condescension, my rat will eat phosphor paste out of my hand.
Jack (to novice in difficulties with the tide). "The next time you sportsmen takes an outin' try a number twenty-seven bus."
From the obituary notice of an octogenarian:—
"He was a keen chronologist, and possessed a valuable collection of shells."—Provincial Paper.
Picked up, no doubt, on the sands of time.