The father of a certain charming girl is well known in this town as "a very tight old gentleman." When dad recently received a young man, who for some time had been "paying attention" to the daughter, it was the old gentleman who made the first observation:
Huh! So you want to marry my daughter, eh?
Yes, sir; very much, indeed.
Um�let me see. Can you support her in the style to which she has been accustomed?
I can, sir, said the young man, "but I am not mean enough to do it."