His Visible Means

It was at a fashionable wedding. The bridegroom's father was a well-known company director, and an enormously rich man, though “near.”

The bridegroom, however, was notoriously impecunious. His sole means of support seemed to be borrowing money from his friends.

But he boldly repeated his part of the marriage service, and exclaimed loudly, “With all my worldly goods I thee endow.”

Whereupon his father said in a stage whisper that could be heard distinctly all over the church: “Good Lord!

There goes his bicycle!”

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