A young bachelor, frequenting the pub quite often, was in the habit of singing laurels

of his bachelorhood to all within hearing distance.

He was quite cured of his self-centered, eccentric ideals, when once, Babbal singh got up calmly from the table, gave the hero a paternal thump on the back and remarked, "I SUPPOSE, YOUNG CHAP, YOUR FATHER MUST HAVE BEEN A BACHELOR TOO."