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My Smoke-House

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 9, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 15.

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"My Smoke-House"

A MAN who lives in Albany, and whose business is that of a clerk, said that he had lately built a house that cost him three thousand dollars. His friends expressed their wonder that he could afford to build so fine a dwelling.
"Why," said he, "that is my smoke-house."
"Your smoke-house? What do you mean?"
"Why, I mean that twenty years ago I left off smoking, and I have put the money saved from smoke, with interest, into my house. Hence I call it my smoke-house."—Selected.