Pickles.

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 202, 23 May 1936, Page 22

Pickles.

“My dog took first prize at the cat show.” "How cliff he manage that?” “Well, ho took the prize cat.” # * The angler had sat for hours without a bite, though he kept losing his bait. In desperation, he took his last worm, poured some whisky on it, and put it on the liook. To his surprise, the line tightened. He reeled in carefully, and found that the worm had seized a full-grown trout by the throa t. “Does your son ever come back to visit you since he got in the movies at Hollywood?” "Every .summer,” answered Grandma, proudly; “every summer of the three years he's been gone.” “And does be bring his wife with him?” “Each time,” she answered. "And they was three as party girls as you ever laid eyes ou.” « » * One of the witnesses was a countryman unused to the ways of law, but quick, it proved, to understand its fundamentals. After a severe cross-examination, counsel for the prosecution paused, and then, putting on a look of severity, exclaimed: “Mr. Smith, lias not: an effort been made to induce yon to toll a different story?” “A different: story from what I told, sir?” "That is what I mean.” "Yes, sir. Several persons have tried to get me to tell a different story from what I told, but they couldn’t.” "Now, sir. Upon your oath, remember. I wish to know who those persons are.” “Well, I guess you've tried about as hard as any of them.’’ * « <: In the smoking compart incut the conversation turned on the merits and demerits of various ways of preserving health. One stout, florid man had quite a lot to say. "Look at me!” lie said. "Never a day’s sickness in my life, and all due to simple food. Why,” he continued, "from twenty to forty I lived an absolutely regular life—no effeminate delicacies, no late hours, no extravagances! Every day, summer and winter, I was in bed regularly at 9 o’clock and up again at sin the morning. I worked from 8 to 1. then had a dinner —a. plain dinner, mark you: after that an hour’s exercise; then ” “Excuse me.” interrupted the irritated stranger in the corner, “but what were you in for?”