I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.