A SMILE OR TWO
A Smile or Two Avoiding Confusion "Can you make anything out of the news from Europe?" "Easiest thing in the world. I only read the newspapers every other day. In this way I get a connected story...
...It is a fine moonlight night," the priest said...
...Baedeker bad book," he repeated...
...There is just one thing I don't like about this horse," he said...
...Good evening, Patrick...
...But you certainly eat a terrible lot, Willie, for such a little fellow...
...The Contrary Moon Patrick Rafferty is a hard man to satisfy...
...Btjbt—He caught himself cheating at solitaire, and hasn't spoken to himself since.—Baltimore American...
...What's the difference between a big town and a little one...
...Ex...
...Scotticism McTavish and Macpherson are adrift at sea in an open boat...
...She will when she is paid for...
...Turning for some' point of detail to his Baedeker guide-book, a sheik looked at him sadly, and shook his head...
...Twickembury, "to be sailing along quietly and suddenly see a peristyle pop out of the water...
...Mercy...
...And I've been a hard drinker all my days...
...The sheik crossed his hands and looked down on him with the pitying eyes of Islam...
...Willie, however, was not at all upset by this...
...Life...
...She won't hold her head up...
...Uncle Eben—Wal, in a big one the crowd follows the fire engine to find out where the fire is, and in a little one the fire engine follows the crowd to find out where jt is.—Ex * * * Cored Aechie—How does it happen that Smith hasn't that habit of talking to himself any more...
...Oh," answered the novelist, "why do you object to Baedeker...
...Moral Dejection The expressman had bought a horse, but after closing the deal he was not exactly satisfied with his purchase...
...That hateful Miss Oldun said the reason I wasn't married was because no fool had proposed to me, so i up and told her you had.—Boston Transcript...
...Murray very, very good...
...Murray say, 'Give the sheik half a crown.' Baedeker say, 'Give the sheik a shilling.'"—Tit-Bits...
...He Did It 1 He—But I asked you, dearest, to keep our engagement a secret for the present...
...Oh, that is only her bloomin' pride," said the dealer...
...Christian Register...
...It is, your holiness," said Patrick, "but it is not tonight we want the moon out—it's the dark nights.—Ex...
...Awful Experience ¦'How dreadful it must be," exclaimed Mrs...
...She—I couldn't help it...
...Baedeker no good...
...Puck...
...I expect," he rejoined, "that I ain't so little as I look from the outside...
...The Difference Uncle Ezea—So ye've just been down to New York, Eben...
...she exclaimed one day...
...The Official Organ Grant Allen was sitting one day in the shade of the Sphinx...
...McTavish (on his knees)—"O Lord, I ken I've broken maist o' they commandments...
...But, 0 Lord, if we're spared this time, I promise never—" Macphebson—"l widna commit my-seP ower far, Donald, i 1 think I see land...
...The other night he and the parish priest met in a country lane...
...Murray good," he said, in a voice of warning...
...In this way I get a connected story of one side or the other and avoid the denials...
...Appearances Deceptive The aunt of a little boy was amazeel at the appetite exhibited by him during a recent stay in her household...
Vol. 8 • November 1916 • No. 11
