Couldn't lug it round with me, you know." "I suppose you have known a great many celebrated people ?" "Plenty of 'em--plenty of 'em, sir.

By the way, did anybody ever tell you that you looked like Mohammed?
Well, sir, you do.

Astonishing likeness! Now, _there_ was an old scalawag for you.

A perfect fraud! I lent that man a pair of boots in 598, and he never returned them; said I'd get my reward hereafter.

I've regretted those boots for nearly thirteen hundred years." "Did it ever occur to you to lecture ?" "Oh yes; I've turned it over in my mind.