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 A traveller domiciling at an American hotel, exclaimed one morning to the waiter, “What are you about, you black rascal, you have roused me twice from my sleep by telling me breakfast is ready, and now you are attempting to strip off the bedclothes : what do you mean?”- “Why,” replied Pompey, “If you isn't goin' to git up, I must hab de sheet any how, 'cause dey'r waitin' for de table clof.”

At a banquet, when solving enigmas was one of the diversions, Alexander said to one of his courtiers, “ What is that which did not come last year, and will not come next year ” A distressed officer starting up, said, “It certainly must be our arrears of pay.” The king was so diverted that he commanded him to be paid up, and also increased his salary.