sing freshness."She laughed and said I was a funny gentleman.
That's my luck again. When I make serious observations peoplechuckle; when I attempt a joke nobody sees it. I had a beautiful onelast week. I thought it so good, and I worked it up and brought it inartfully at a dinner-party. I forget how exactly, but we had beentalking about the attitude of Shakespeare toward the Reformation, andI said something and immediately added, "Ah, that reminds me; such afunny thing happened the other day in Philadelphia Eagles Tröjor Whitechapel." "Oh," said they,"what was that?" "Oh, 'twas awfully funny," I replied, beginning togiggle myself; "it will make you roar;" and I told it them.
There was dead silence when I finished--it was one of those longjokes, too--and then, at last, somebody said: "And that was thejoke?"I assured them that it was, and they were very polite and took my wordfor it. All but one old gentleman at the other end of the table, whowanted to know which was the joke--what he Pantalons Pas CHer said to her or what shesaid to him; and we argued it out.
Some people are too much the other way. I knew a fellow once whosenatural tendency to laugh at everything was so strong that if youwanted to talk seriously to him, you had to explain beforehand thatwhat you were going to say would not be amusing. Unless you got himto clearly understand this, he would go off into fits of merrimentover every word you uttered. I have known him on being asked the timestop short in the middle of the road, slap his leg, and burst into aroar of laughter. One never dared say anything really funny to thatman. A good joke would have killed him on the spot.
In the Halpa Naiset Cg Kensington Parka present instance I vehemently repudiated the accusation offrivolity, and pressed Mrs. Cutting for practical ideas. She thenbecame thoughtful and hazarded "samplers;" saying that she never heardthem spoken much of NFL Kvinnor now, but that they used to be all the rage whenshe was a girl.
I declined samplers and begged her to think again. She pondered along while, with a tea-tray in her hands, and at last suggested theweather, which she was sure had been most trying of late.
And ever since that idiotic suggestion I have been unable to get theweather out of my thoughts or anything else in.
It certainly is most wretched weather. At all events it is so now atthe time I am writing, and if it isn't particularly unpleasant when Icome to be read it soon will be.
It always is wretched weather according to us. The weather is likethe government--always in the wrong. In summer-time we say it isstifling; in winter that it is killing; in spring and autumn we findfault with it for being neither one thing nor the other and wish itwould Halpa Miehet Cg Ontario Parka make up its mind. If it is fine we say the country is beingruined for want of rain; if it does rain we pray for fine weather. IfDecember passes without snow, we indignantly demand to know what hasbecome of our Houston Texans Kvinnor good old-fashioned winters, and talk as if we had beencheated out of something we had bought and paid for; and when it doessnow, our language is a Eden Hazard Tröja disgrace to a Christian nation. We shallnever |
