Frortst: "Would you care to say it with flowers, sir? Perhaps a dozen roses?"
Highlander (in love): "Aye, mon, but Im a man of few words—two wil do!"
No Bluffing Necessary "Now that yore a success as a character actor and are going to be married, will you build your house on a bluff?"
"T should say not—her father's paying for Threatened with Starch A MAN who had been having his laundry done by a neighbourhood washwoman had let his account with her run for months. Then he found the following note in his laundry:
"Dear Sir: You have owed me $8 now for four months. If you do not pay the whole by next week, I will put too much starch in your collars. Cordially, Mrs. Smith."
Just So Tue shepherd's daughter was going to marry a town-dweller. Wishing to make her father look smart at the ceremony, she got him to agree to wear a hat. The shepherd went into a store:
Clerk: "What size, please?"
Shepherd: "I don't know."
Clerk: "We'll try a 6% size first"
Shepherd: "Six and a half be hanged. I wear a 16-collar, and I know my head is bigger than my neck."
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