"Yes, sah," replied Rufus. "I did oversleep myself, sah."
"Where is that clock I gave you?"
"In my room, sah."
"Don't you wind it up?"
"Oh, yes, sah. I winds it up, sah."
"And do you set the alarm?"
"Ev'ry night, sah, I set de alarm, sah."
"But don't you hear the alarm in the morning, Rufus?"
"No, sah, dere's de trouble, sah. Yer see de blame thing goes off
while I'm asleep, sah."
Professor Copeland, of Harvard, as the story goes, reproved his
students for coming late to class.
"This is a class in English composition," he remarked with sarcasm,
"not an afternoon tea."
At the next meeting one girl was twenty minutes late. Professor
Copeland waited until she had taken her seat. Then he remarked
bitingly:
"How will you have your tea, Miss Brown?"
"Without the lemon, please," Miss Brown answered quite gently.
TAX
The most successful statesman is going to be the statesman who can
devise a tax nobody will be able to detect.
MACPHERSON (at the box office)--"Will ye kindly return me the amount I
paid for amusement tax?"
CLERK--"Why, sir?"
MACPHERSON--"We wasna amused."
The man who ran the elevator of the sky-scraper was talking to a
passenger.
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