"Here's another. Why is the clock the most humble of all things?"
"Because it covers its face with its hands, and is continually running itself down."
"When is it in a passion?"
"When it is ready to strike one."
"Pray, what can be the difference between Joan of Arc and Noah's ark?"
"One was made of gopher-wood—the other was Maid of Orleans."
"Two persons met in the street, and one of them said, 'I am your son, but you are not my father.' How could that be?"
"It could not be, Charlie!—how could it?" said Lewis.
"It might be, if the person happened to be his mother," answered Mary, with a laugh.
"It is that, of course—how silly we all are!"