Tue popular novelist's conceit was getting on the nerves of the critic who was dining with him "You know," said the author, fishing for com-piiments, as usual, "my books are selling wonderfully, and I get richer and richer But sometimes Í think my work is falling off. I don't believe I write as well as I did."
"Oh, nonsense!" replied the critic. on write just as well as you ever did Perhaps your literary taste is improving."
Prisoners A NEWLY-PROMOTED colonel gave a dinner to his regiment. Addressing the men he said, jovially "Now fall upon the food without mercy. Treat it as if it were the enemy a At the end of the dinner he noticed a sergeant sneaking aw th two bottles of wine.
What are you doing?" he asked, Obeying orders, sir." was the reply. "When you don't kill the enemy, you take them prisoners.
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