C. O. (addressing recruit): We want you to look upon all your comrades in the regiment your, brothers, and to regard me as your father—father of the regiment. Do you understand?
Recruit: Yes. dad—Grit, On the List Weve heard of a cynical little girl of eight who received a dime bank in the mail one morning last week. quite unexpectedly. Her father saw her fiddling with the bank at breakfast, and asked who sent it. Uncle Don. she said. I'm on his sucker list.—The New Yorker, Proof Te bus conductor handed back the shilling to the woman passenger.
This coin is no good.. he told her. It's spurious, Ridiculous! she said. examining the coin, Why. it's dated 1921, It would ha n noticed before this if it had been bad.—Tit-Bits, Success Frienp: I understand you finally got your poem printed, Aspiring Poet: Yes, but I had to use a little strategy, I Sent the first stanza to the editor of the correspondence column with the inquiry, Can anyone give me the rest of this poem? A few days later I sent the rest under another rame.
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