After-dinner Stories: Containing a Great Many Stories by the Author, which are Absolutely Original, Both in Essence and Construction, and Appearing for the First Time in Print; Together with a Select Assortment of the Brightest Gems of Standard Wit and Humor by Celebrated RaconteursPaul Emilius Lowe D. McKay, 1916 - 132 páginas |
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Página 127 - Tobacco is a dirty weed: I like it. It satisfies no normal need: I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean, It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen: I like it.
Página 75 - Mr. Leach Made a speech, Angry, neat, but wrong : Mr. Hart, On the other part, Was heavy, dull, and long; Mr. Parker Made the case darker, Which was dark enough without : Mr. Cooke Cited his book, And the Chancellor said — I doubt.
Página 7 - Yes, sir; pray what name shall I say?" I looked in the man's face astonished; — what name? what name? Ay, that was the question ; what is my name ? I believe the man thought me mad ; but it is literally true, that, during the space of two or three minutes, I had no more idea who I was than if I had never existed. I did not know if I was a Dissenter or a layman.
Página 76 - A Swede was being examined in a case in a Minnesota town where the defendant was accused of breaking a plate-glass window with a large stone. He was pressed to tell how big the stone was, but he could not explain. "Was it as big as my fist?
Página 120 - Kemble was performing, at some country theatre, one of his most favourite parts, he was much interrupted, from time to time, by the squalling of a young child in one of the galleries. At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience in his most tragic tones, said, " Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on.
Página 71 - An attorney having addressed the court as "gentlemen," instead of "your honors," after he had concluded, a brother of the bar reminded him of his error. He immediately rose and apologized thus: "May it plase the coort, in the hate of debate I called yer honors gentlemen. I made a mistake, yer honors, and humbly apologize.
Página 22 - John Grasped the Idea. From far Shanghai comes a storyette which would seem to point to the fact that John Chinaman, heathen as he is, has assimilated some western ideas on the virtues of the art of medicine. "John," this particular specimen was asked, "do you have good doctors in China?" "Good doctors !
Página 8 - Here he would be accosted by beggars, to whom he generally gave a trifle, he roused himself to hear a few words of the story, made his donation, and instantly dropped down into his depths. Some wags one day stopped a mendicant who was on his way to the window with 'Now, my man, do as we tell you, and you will get something from that gentleman, and a shilling from us besides. You will go and say you are in distress, he will ask you who you are, and you will say you are Robert Simson, son of John Simson...
Página 101 - My son," said the father impressively," suppose I should be taken away suddenly, what would become of you?
Página 20 - How and when was slavery introduced into America?" To this he replied: "No woman had come over to the early Virginia colony. The planters wanted wives to help with the work. In 1619 the London company sent over a shipload of girls. The planters gladly married them, and slavery was introduced into America.