II. Time works wonders

Once a man went to a restaurant. "Bring me a regular three course dinner," he ordered the waiter, a very young lad. Time passed, but the lad with the dinner didn't appear. "How long shall I have to wait?" wondered the customer. At that moment the boy came running in with a plate of soup on

a tray: "Are you the very lad from whom I ordered a three course dinner?" asked the customer, both hungry and cross. "Yes, sir, I am," answered the waiter. "Dear me!" exclaimed the hungry customer. "I don't recognize you! You have grown quite a man since that time."

III. An automobile story

An American who was going by car through the country saw in front of him a man followed by a dog. As the car drew nearer the dog suddenly started to cross the road. The poor animal was hit by the car and killed.

The American stopped his car and approached the man. "I am very sorry that this has happened," he said. "Will ten dollars be enough?"

"Oh, yes," said the man, "ten dollars will be quite enough!" The man put the money in his pocket and as the car disap­peared in the distance, he looked down at the dead animal and thought: "I wonder whose dog it was."

IV. Bad manners

Mother says to her little daughter: "Jessy, don't interrupt me. Haven't I told you time and again not to interrupt when your elders are talking but wait until they stop?"

"I have been waiting for so long, Mummy," says Jessy, "but you never stop talking!"

V. The boy and the cakes

A train stops at a small station. A passenger looks out of the window and sees a woman who is selling cakes. The gentleman wants to buy a cake but the woman is standing too far away from the carriage.

The gentleman does not want to go and get the cake him­self, so he calls a little boy who is on the platform near the carriage and says, "How much does a cake cost?" "Three­ pence, sir," answers the boy. The gentleman gives him six­pence and says, "Buy me one and with the other three pence get another for yourself."

A few minutes later the boy comes back eating a cake. He gives the gentleman three pence change and says, "There was only one cake left, sir."

VI. Too clever

A schoolboy who passed his first examination in arithmetic comes home for his holidays.

His mother puts two roast chickens on the table, and the boy who thinks himself very clever, says to his father: "I can prove to you by arithmetic that there are three chickens on the dish".

"Oh!" says his father, "how can you do that?"

"Well, this is one, and that is two, and one and two makes three."

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