Anonym Did It
Boy (to his father in a picture gallery):—“Father, what kind of a painter is this ‘Anonym’ whose name is mentioned so often in the catalogue?”
Father:—“What a foolish boy you are! Anonym is a foreign word and means that the painter wishes to be unknown for the present.”
Father (at home, several hours later):—“It is perfectly dreadful the way you children meddle with everything; there is no end to your mischief! Now my beautiful meerschaum pipe has been broken. Who did it?”
Boy:—“Anonym, father!”