Part 22 (2/2)
”What is the meaning of the saying that a man shall earn his bread in the sweat of his brow?” asked a boy in a New York school.
”Have you never observed a man working on a warm day?” asked the teacher.
”No, don't think I ever saw one.”
”What does your father do on a right hot day?”
”He goes in bathing out at Coney Island.”
”What is your father's business?”
”He is a walking delegate.”
A tramp asked a farmer for something to eat One day as he chanced there to stop, The kind hearted farmer went out to the shed And gave him an axe and feelingly said: ”Now just help yourself to a chop.”
”Yes” said a landlord, sadly, whose tenant had made a moonlight ”flitting,” ”appearances are deceitful; but disappearances are still more so.”
Sailors are not fond of agricultural implements usually, but they always welcome the cry of ”Land-hoe.”
Some men divide their lives between trying to forget and trying to recover from the effects of trying to forget.
”Castles in the air are walled in by fancy,” remarked the poet.
”Faith, I'd prefer a _rale_ fence,” said Pat.
A boy who is frequently chastised both by his mother and grandmother, speaks of them as ”a spanking team.”
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