I've already got about fifteen thousand dollars' worth of stock ready to issue.

Has everybody been to lunch?
I have been so busy that I haven't eaten anything since early this morning.

Joe, lend me fifty cents." "And take a mortgage on your investment company ?" "Oh, ho, ho, that's a good thing.

The other day one of your so-called literary men said that he would give me two dollars an hour to write for him from dictation.

'Ha, I've struck a soft thing,' thinks I, and I goes to his den with him.