CHANCE FOR A FREE RIDE
General Servant—“If you please, mum, may I have a ’oliday?”
Mistress—“Why, Jane, you have had a fortnight’s holiday these last twelve months already.”
Servant—“Yes, mum; but the baker tells me that the Government gents is sending generals out to France, their fares is paid by the taxes, and I thought the sea-trip would do me good, mum.”