real

   value. But I know, also, that none of my married friends would swap wives with me. That's your

    exchangeable

   value.

   "

    Ah

   , Pat, Pat," said a schoolmistress to a thick-headed urchin into whose muddy brain she was attempting to beat the alphabet—"I'm afraid you'll never learn anything. Now, what's that letter, eh?"

   "Sure, and I don't know ma'am," replied Pat.

   "Thought you might have remembered that."

   "Why, ma'am?"

   "Because it has a dot over the top of it."

   "Och, ma'am, I mind it well; but sure I thought it was a speck."

   "Well, now remember, Pat, it's I."

   "You, ma'am?"

   "No! no! not U but I."

   "Not I, but you, ma'am—how's that?"

   "Not U, but I, blockhead!"

   "Och, yis, faith; now I have it, ma'am. You mean to say, that not I but you are a blockhead?"

   "Fool! fool!" exclaimed the pedagoguess bursting with rage.

   "Just as you please," quietly responded Pat, "fool or blockhead—it's no matter, so long as yer free to own it!"

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