Commonplace Book

'...Mr. Finkelstein smiled faintly, and said, as if to excuse himself, "Vail, I cain't help it. I must haif my shoke."

"The grandest thing about your wit, fader-in-law," Mr. Marx observed, "is dot you don't never laugh yourself."

"No, dot's so," agreed Mr. Finkelstein. "When you get off a vitticism, you don't want to laif yourself, for fear you might laif de cream off it."

from My Uncle Florimond by Henry Harland (Chapter III)