"No."
"Then what in thunder air you?"
"I'm the member of Congress from this district."
"Air you the man I voted for and that I've been reading about in the papers doin' legislatin' and sich in Washington?"
"Yes."
"Well, by hokey, mister," said the farmer, as he looked with admiration over the recently-plowed furrows, "ef I'd a had any idea that I was votin' fer a waste of sich good farmin' material I'd voted fer the other candidate as shore as shootin'."
28. BEYOND EXPRESSION
[When called on for a speech one may answer the chairman in the words of this lady:]
She was in her room when some people came to call. Her husband received the company, and after awhile said to his daughter, who was playing about the room:
"Go up-stairs and tell your mamma that Mr. and Mrs. Blank have come to call."