Short Snorts

When a deputy sheriff, assigned to take an inventory of house furnishings, did not return after a reasonable length of time, the sheriff investigated and found his assistant asleep on a lounge in the living room. The deputy had, however, made a stab at the inventory. In a notebook he had written down, "Living room: One table, one sideboard, one full bottle whisky." Then "full" had been crossed out and "half full" substituted; after which this was overlined and "empty" put in its place. At the bottom of the page was scrawled, "One large, revolving carpet."