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A Kind Neighbor

Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ apartment was full of luggage, packages, furniture and boxes. Both of them were very busy when they heard the doorbell ring. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady said she lived next door. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and apologized because there was no place for her to sit. “Oh, that’s OK.” said the lady. “I just come to welcome to your new home. As you know, in some parts of this city, neighbors are not friendly at all. They are some apartment houses where people don’t know any of their neighbors, not even the ones next door. But in this building, everyone is very friendly with everyone else. We are a big happy family. I am sure you will be very happy here.” Mr. and Mrs. Jones said, “But madam, we are not new dwellers in this apartment. We’ve lived here for two years. We are moving out tomorrow.”

That Isn’t Our Fault

Mr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she twenty. of them.

Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and ’ll be ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”

“No,” Mrs. Williams said, “please send them to us.”

She got into her car and drove to the photographer’“You I’m not going to pay for them.”

“Oh, why not?” the photographer asked.

““Well,”t our fault. Why didn’t you think of that before you married him?”

A Guide’s Answer

However, even Southerners have not forgotten their defeat, or forgiven the Northerners.

stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces of At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, “ But surely that the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?”

“Not as long as I’m the guide here, madam,” answered the Southern guide.

A Qualified Pilot

The captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. He went ashore in one of the small ports, and a local fisherman pretended that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.

After half an hour, the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what