Why, the cat is not here. When did she scratch you?
Yesterday.
Well, why are you crying now?
’Cause I forgot it then.
This bit of brightness is said to have cropped out in a conversation between two misses not old enough to go to school.
What makes a horse act naughty when he sees an auto?
It is this way—Horses is used to seein’ other horses pull wagons, and they don’t know what to think of ’em goin’ along without a horse. Guess if you saw a pair of pants walkin’ down the street without a man in ’em you’d be scared, too.