"I think, Harry," said Mrs. Barton, "I'll ask those new people next door to come to dinner with us tonight." "What for?" asked her husband. "Well, the butcher left their meat rations here by mistake, and I think it seems only fair."
"How would you describe an optimist?" "An optimist is a person who II go into a restaurant without a halfpemiy in his pocket and count on paying for the meal with the pearl he' hopes to find in the oysters."
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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 6, 11 October 1919, Page 30
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82Untitled Observer, Volume XL, Issue 6, 11 October 1919, Page 30
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