Miss Markus.—I asked a boy what gravitation was and he said, “Gravitation is that which if there were none we should all fly away.”
Miss Wise.—I was positively discouraged with my algebra class. One girl wrote that algebraic symbols were used when you didn’t know what you were talking about.
(Abner’s whistle is heard.)
Miss Markus.—O that whistling! Is that all he can whistle?
Susan.—Yes, and it gets on my nerves somethin’ awful sometimes.
Miss Markus.—Have you a lemon? Lemon juice is most good for everything.
(Susan procures a lemon and hands it to her as Abner and Tom enter with tree.)
Tom.—Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is some tree. I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet.
Abner.—You mean I did it. That’s the way it always is, I do the work and some other feller gets the credit of it.