The maid, when she makes the bed, always puts the slippers under the bed close to the wall. The fat master, unable to bear it any longer, gives the maid notice. It turns out that the doctor told her to put the slippers as far as possible under the bed so as to cure the man of his obesity.

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The club blackballed a respectable man because all of the members were out of humor; they ruined his prospects.

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A large factory. The young employer plays the superior to all and is rude to the employees who have University degrees. Only the gardener, a German, has the courage to be offended: "How dare you, gold bag?"

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A tiny little schoolboy with the name of Trachtenbauer.

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Whenever he reads in the newspaper about the death of a great man, he wears mourning.

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