CARRYING DICTIONARY
" I'm sorry," said Ann. " I should have....It was too bad of me......But you know how it is when you're nervous."
" Nervous! " Lord Hoddesdon snorted. " You nervous? If ever I've seen a girl calmer and more -er- what's the word? -more-ah-...begins with a b...."
" George, " said Lady Vera, " be quiet. "
Lord Hoddesdon subsided into his chair. He seemed to be wishing that he had brought his Dictionary of Synonyms along with him this evening.
CHOOSY PEKE
Ann detached a piece of cake and dropped it before the Peke(the dog). The Peke sniffed at it disparagingly, and resumed its steady gaze (at the dinner table). It wanted chicken. It is simple creed of the Peke that, where two human beings are gathered together to eat, chicken must enter into the proceedings somewhere.
SHAREHOLDES' MEET IN TUMMY!
( Mr Paterson, the CEO of a Company, lay in his bed with severe indigestion after eating roast duck....)
What was going on in T. Paterson's interior resembled in some degree a stormy Shareholders' Meeting. Nasty questions were being asked. Voices were being raised. At times it seemed as though violence had broken out. And the pepsine tablets which he kept swallowing so hopefully were accomplishing nothing more than might on such an occasion the bleating ' Gentleman, please! ' of an inefficient chairman.
WHAT BOOZE DID
A diet of large whiskies and small sodas, persisted in through the whole of a long afternoon and evening and augmented by an occasional neat brandy, is thing that cuts, as it were, both ways. ..............: but it had left him in a state of uncertainty on three cardinal points.
They were:
[a] Who was he?
[b] Where was he?
[c] Why was he?
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