CUSTOMER: You have a sign in your window 'A suit of clothes made while you wait
CUSTOMER: "You have a sign in your window, 'A suit of clothes
made while you wait.' Do you really do that?"
TAILOR: "Yes, sir. You leave your order, with a deposit, and then
go home and wait till the garments are finished."
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CITYMAN--Do they keep a servant girl
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Coleridge, who was a bad rider, was accosted when on horseback by a wag, who asked him if he knew what happened to Balaam, "The same thing that happened to me--An ass spoke to him." ... Comstock shuddered the other evening when a lady asked him if he cared for undressed kids
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CONDON--Have you been cured of that last attack of malaria? DENBY--Oh, yes, Doctress Anna Curem knocked it silly. But her treatment left me with a worse disease than malaria ever was. "You don't say so!" "Yes, sir; I've got an incurable cas... Corbett and Fitzsimmons will never fight again
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CUSTOMER: "You have a sign in your window, 'A suit of clothes made while you wait.' Do you really do that?" TAILOR: "Yes, sir. You leave your order, with a deposit, and then go home and wait till the garments are finished." ... DAME RUMOR ought frequently to have her named spelled without the e
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"Dear," said the physician's wife, "when can you let me have ten dollars?" "Well," replied the medical man. "I hope to cash a draft shortly." "Cash a draft? What draft?" "The one I saw old Jenkins sitting in this morning." ... Dearest she murmured I'm so afraid you'll change
"Dearest," she murmured, "I'm so afraid you'll change." "Darling," he answered, "you'll never find any change about me." ... Dearest whispered Cordelia after she had captured the coveted solitaire I have a confession to make
"Dearest," whispered Cordelia, after she had captured the coveted solitaire, "I have a confession to make. I am a cooking school graduate." Clarence shuddered. "Oh, well," he rejoined, after the manner of one resigned to his fate, "we can bo... DICK--Do you think you'll have much trouble in popping the question
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"Did any of you ever see an elephant's skin?" inquired a teacher of a class of youths. "I have," exclaimed one. "Where?" asked the teacher. "On the elephant," replied the boy. ... Did the fisherman have frog's legs Bridget
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"Did the minister say anything comforting?" asked the neighbor of the widow recently bereaved. "Indeed, he didn't," was the quick reply. "He said my husband was better off." ... Did you ever catch your husband flirting
"Did you ever catch your husband flirting?" "Yes; that's the very way I did catch him." ... Did you ever consider the case of the boy who stood on the burning deck
"Did you ever consider the case of the boy who stood on the burning deck?" "Not particularly. Why?" "Well, the game was poker and the hand had been dealt from the burning deck was a corker; so, as he didn't want to lose any chances, he--but ... Did you ever hear about the two holes in our back-yard
"Did you ever hear about the two holes in our back-yard?" "Well! Well!" ... Did you go into any of the New York restaurants
"Did you go into any of the New York restaurants?" "No. I got into what I thought was one and I heard a feller call for Saratoga chips and I knew 'twas a gamblin'-den and got out quick." ...