[Illustration:
“Is your father goin’ to take in boarders this summer?”
“I guess so”; (with a wink) “he took in a lot last year, you know.”]
[Illustration:
Dennis (a green hand, to whom the speaking-pipe is an unexplored
mystery): “I’d give me month’s wages to foind out how the divil the
boss iver managed to shqueeze himself into that bit iv a poipe!”]
[Illustration:
“Well, Tom, what sort o’ Fourth did you have?”