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Updated: June 7, 2025
"I want to see Deacon Jones a minute in reference to a matter about Moses." "Want to pay his gas-bill? What's the last name?" "Oh no. I mean the first Moses, the original one." "Anything the matter with his meter?" "You don't understand me. I refer to the Hebrew prophet. I want to see " "Well, you can't see him here. This is the gas-office. Try next door." At the adjoining window Mr. Lamb said,
The deacon is head-man in the gas-office, and in the office there are half a dozen small windows, behind which sit clerks to receive money. Applying at one of these, Mr. Lamb said, "Is Deacon Jones in?" "What's your business?" "Why, I want to find out the name of Moses' " "Don't know anything about it. Look in the directory;" and the clerk slammed the window shut.
It accused me of burning during the quarter about one million five hundred thousand feet of gas, and it called on me to settle to the extent of nearly three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I put on my hat and went down to the gas-office. I addressed one of the clerks: "How much gas did you make at the Blank works last quarter?" "I dunno; about a million feet, I reckon."
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