"We give four shows every day."

   "Oh, yes, I understand that."

   "And do you think you can do it?"

   "I know I can."

   "On Saturdays we give six shows."

   "All right."

   "On holidays we usually give a performance every hour."

   And now, at last, the young man showed signs of doubt.

   "In that case, I must have one thing understood before I'd be willing to sign a contract."

   "What?"

   "No matter what the rush of business is in the show, you've got to give me time to go to the hotel to eat my regular meals."

   *    *    *

   Daniel Webster was the guest at dinner of a solicitous hostess who insisted rather annoyingly that he was eating nothing at all, that he had no appetite, that he was not making out a meal. Finally, Webster wearied of her hospitable chatter, and addressed her in his most ponderous senatorial manner:

   "Madam, permit me to assure you that I sometimes eat more than at other times, but never less."

   *    *    *

   It was shortly after Thanksgiving Day that someone asked the little boy to define the word appetite. His reply was prompt and enthusiastic:

   "When you're eating you're 'appy; and when you get through you're tight—that's appetite!"

   The distinguished actor had a large photograph of Wordsworth prominently displayed in his dressing-room. A friend regarded the picture with some surprise, and remarked:

   "I see you are an admirer of Wordsworth."

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