The nurse at the front regarded the wounded soldier with a puzzled frown.

     "Your face is perfectly familiar to me," she said, musingly.  "But I can't quite place you somehow."

     "Let bygones be bygones, mum," the soldier said weakly.  "Yes, mum, I was a policeman."

ANATOMY

     The little boy, sent to the butcher shop, delivered himself of this message in these words:

     "Ma says to send her another ox-tail, please, an' ma says the last one was very nice, an' ma says she wants another off the same ox!"

APPEARANCE

     Little Willie came home in a sad state.  He had a black eye and numerous scratches and contusions, and his clothes were a sight.  His mother was horrified at the spectacle presented by her darling.  There were tears in her eyes as she addressed him rebukingly:

     "Oh, Willie, Willie!  How often have I told you not to play with that naughty Peck boy!"

     Little Willie regarded his mother with an expression of deepest disgust.

     "Say, ma," he objected, "do I look as if I had been playing with anybody?"

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     The cross-eyed man at the ball bowed with courtly grace, and said:

     "May I have the pleasure of this dance?"

     "Two wallflowers answered as with one voice:

     "With pleasure."