GENTLE HINT
A woman who had had four stalwart soldiers billeted on her endeavored to use as little butcher meat as possible. Day after day there was served at the dinner time a scanty meal, the chief item of which was tea.
“Ah,” she said one day, pointing to a tea leaf floating in one of the cups, “there’s to be a visitor today.”
“Well, madam,” said one of the hungry four, “let us hope that it’s the butcher!”