Oxe Sunday my daughter—a mother stated—was going to visit her boy friend's people. On leaving she usually calls out "Cheerio, everyone!" But on this occasion she came in and kissed me very firmly on the cheek.
I was thinking how nice it was of her, when she stood back and, surveying me, said, "It's all right....I just wanted to see if my lipstick came off!"
Deaf and Dumb A New York man bought a parrot and had it sent to his house, where there happened to be a new Irish cook, who to the horror of the family, served the bird up for dinner.
"That wasn't a bird to be eaten; that was a bird that talked," exclaimed her indignant master.
"If the bird could talk, why didn't it say so?" retorted Biddy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.