PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 12, 8 February 1907, Page 3

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Hewitt—" Seeds doesn't wear good clothes, does he?"—Jewett~i "No; he doesn't dress any better than a millionaire."—Town Topics. She—"l must say that lam disappointed in you; there was a time when I thought you were a man of boundless courage." He—" That was when I proposed to you, of course." —Richmond Dispatch. "Really, I must admit," aaid Mr. Borem, "I've been very slow about paying this call, but—" "Don't apologize," replied Miss Tyre-Dout, suppressing a yawn, "they say it's born in some people to pay as they go."— Philadelphia Press'. "You brute! When you married me you said you would gratify my slightest desire, and now you refuse to buy that cloak for me!" "Yes, dear; but I don't regard a hankering for a sealskin cloak as a alight desire."—Baltimore New». Ascum—"Borroughs Is & pretty good linguist, isn't he?" Markley—"l don't know. He always talks to •fne in broken English." Ascum—"ln broken English?" Markley—"Yes; all I ever hear him aay ia: 'Say, lemme another fiver, will you?'"—Philadelphia Press. Greene—" Look at that woman, will you? I should think she'd freeze with that little bit of a jacket." Wyse—"My dear fellow, if you were any judge of values, you'd know that the cloth that jacket's made of is the most expensive goods in the market."—Boston Transcript. Making It Easy.—"My Dear Sir," wrote the editor to the persistent author, "in order to simplify matters somewhat, we are inclosing a bunch of our 'declined with thanks' notices. If you will put one of these in an envelope with your manuscript and mail it to yourself it will make it easier for all of us, and you will be saving something in postage an well."—Chicago Post.