College Wit
While the learned and venerable Dr. Lord presided over Dartmouth college, and kept as keen an oversight upon the habits and morals of the young gentlement of the institution as they required, a report reached him that one of the freshmen, C----, a good student, but rather a fast fellow, was contracting the awful vice of gambling. The Doctor was always accustomed to take the bull by the horns, and upon this occasion the delinquent was immediately summoned into the presence and bluntly interrogated. "How's this, Mr. C----?" the pres. sternly questioned "I hear that you have been known to play for stakes." The eye of the young reprobate twinkled as he saw a chance for a joke: and he demurely responded, "You have been misinformed, sir. I have never played for steaks, though I must confess that I have, once or twice, for oysters." The Doctor appreciated the ingenious witticism, and was easily satisfied that the delinquency had been grossly magnified.
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2 comments:
Anyone who can make jokes simply cannot have any serious problems. Rightly spotted, doc.
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