Best Short Stories Part 19
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"Sure, it's true," said the accused, "I called him a liar because he is one, and I can prove it."
"What have you got to say to that?" asked the Judge of the defendant.
"It's got nothing to do with the case, your honor," was the unexpected reply. "Even if I am a liar I guess I've got a right to be sensitive about it, ain't I?"
A READY-WITTED PARSON
The evening lesson was from the Book of Job, and the minister had just read, "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out," when immediately the church was in total darkness.
"Brethren," said the minister, with scarcely a moment's pause, "in view of the sudden and startling fulfilment of this prophecy, we will spend a few minutes in silent prayer for the electric lighting company."
A STOCK SUFFRAGE ARGUMENT
A member of Congress and his wife had been to Baltimore one afternoon.
When they left the train at Was.h.i.+ngton, on their return, the wife discovered that her umbrella, which had been entrusted to the care of her husband, was missing.
"Where's my umbrella?" she demanded.
"I fear I have forgotten it, my dear," meekly answered the statesman.
"It must still be in the train."
"In the train!" snorted the lady. "And to think that the affairs of the nation are entrusted to a man who doesn't know enough to take care of a woman's umbrella!"
A DEEP ONE
Johnny stood beside his mother as she made her selection from the huckster's wagon, and the farmer told the boy to take a handful of cherries, but the child shook his head.
"What's the matter? Don't you like them?" asked the huckster.
"Yes," replied Johnny.
"Then go ahead an' take some."
Johnny hesitated, whereupon the farmer put a generous handful in the boy's cap. After the farmer had driven on, the mother asked:
"Why didn't you take the cherries when he told you to?"
"'Cause his hand was bigger'n mine."
PROVING IT
A woman owning a house in Philadelphia before which a gang of workmen were engaged in making street repairs was much interested in the work.
"And which is the foreman?" she asked of a big, burly Celt.
A proud smile came to the countenance of that individual as he replied:
"Oi am, mum."
"Really?" continued the lady.
"Oi kin prove it, mum," rejoined the Irishman. Then, turning to a laborer at hand, he added, "Kelly, ye're fired!"
PRAYER OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS
We had a new experience the other day (relates a writer in the _Atlantic Monthly_) when we picked up two boatloads of survivors from the----, torpedoed without warning. I will say they were pretty glad to see us when we bore down on them. As we neared they began to paddle frantically, as though fearful we should be s.n.a.t.c.hed away from them at the last moment. The crew were mostly Arabs and Lascars, and the first mate, a typical comic magazine Irishman, delivered himself of the following: "Sure, toward the last some o' thim haythen gits down on their knees and starts calling on Allah: but I sez, sez I, 'Git up afore I swat ye wid the ax handle, ye benighted haythen; sure if this boat gits saved 't will be the Holy Virgin does it or none at all, at all!
Git up,'sez I."
MUCH SIMPLER
For an hour the teacher had dealt with painful iteration on the part played by carbohydrates, proteids, and fats, respectively, in the upkeep of the human body. At the end of the lesson the usual test questions were put, among them: "Can any girl tell me the three foods required to keep the body in health?" There was silence till one maiden held up her hand and replied: "Yer breakfast, yer dinner, and yer supper."
SILENT CONTEMPT
A certain man whose previous record was of the best was charged with a minor offense. Law and evidence were unquestionably on the side of the defense, but when the arguments had been concluded a verdict of "guilty"
was given and a fine imposed.
The lawyer for the defense was sitting with his back toward the magistrate. Without changing his position or rising to address the court, he remarked:
"Judge, please fine me for contempt of court."
The magistrate inquired:
"What d'ye mean, sir? You haven't committed contempt."
"I have," came from the old lawyer. "It's silent."
WHAT DID SOLOMON SAY?
London children certainly get some quaint views of life. An instance of this recently occurred in an East End Sunday-school, where the teacher was talking to her cla.s.s about Solomon and his wisdom.
"When the Queen of Sheba came and laid jewels and fine raiment before Solomon, what did he say?" she asked presently.
One small girl, who had evidently had experience in such matters, promptly replied:
"'Ow much d'yer want for the lot?"
HIS ULTIMATUM
Quite recently a wars.h.i.+p of the Atlantic Fleet found it necessary to call for a few hours at a military port on the coast of Ireland. Tommy Atkins, meeting a full-bearded Irish tar in the street a couple of hours later, said:
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