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Show "All Out." One day a rent collector knocked three times at a certain house, without even once getting a reply. Incoming enraged, be went back a fourth time, and in response to his knock an urchin opened the door. "Where were you all day?" demanded the collector. "I was out," replied the boy. "Where is your father?" "He's out." "Where is your mother?" "She's out." "Well," said the collector, "I will just go in and sit at the fire until some one of them returns." re-turns." "But the fire's out, too," quickly quick-ly responded the boy. |