The old sea captain was surrounded at the tea party, to which his wife had dragged him, much against his will, by a group of women pestering him for a story from his adventures. Finally, at the end of his patience, he began.
"Once, I was shipwrecked on the coast of South America, and there I came across a tribe of wild women, who had no tongues."
"Mercy!" exclaimed all the fair listeners with one voice. "But they couldn't talk."
"That," snapped the old sea captain, "was what made them wild."
WISDOM
It's a wise child that goes out of the room to laugh when the old man mashes his thumb.
WOMAN
A cynic, considering the fact that women was the last thing made by God, asserts that the product shows both His experience and His fatigue.
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