The Crop Fails.

An absent-minded woman had insisted upon being operated on for appendicitis. Some time after her recovery she turned up at the consulting-room and asked the doctor if he would mind telling her what he had found in her appendix.

“Well,” said the doctor, “I may as well admit to you that yours was the most extraordinary case I have ever handled. I never found any thing like it in an appendix before. You will hardly believe it, but I found several small, hard seeds.”

“Oh!” said the woman. “That accounts for our having no sweet peas this year, I must have sown the pills.”