During the afternoon the Bishop approached May, and, patting her on the head, said, "Well, little girl, how old are you?"
The Bishop's surprise was great when she replied, "My God, I'm eight."
[HOOK AND PUTNEY BRIDGE]
One of the best known of Hook's puns was uttered to a visitor to his house at Fulham. The visitor, looking at Putney Bridge, said that he had heard that it was a good investment, and turning to his host asked if that was really so. "I really don't know," was the answer, "but you have only to cross it and you will certainly be tolled."
[A GOOD EXAMPLE]
A Welsh parson, in his sermon, told his congregation how kind and respectful we ought to be towards each other, and added, that in this respect we were greatly inferior to animals. To prove this, he mentioned as an example the circumstance of two goats, which met one another upon a narrow plank across a river, so that they could not pass by without one thrusting the other off, "Now, how do you think they did? Why, I'll tell you. One lay down, and let the other leap over him. Ah, my beloved, let us live like goats."
[A MISFIT]
Assistant: "Do the shoes fit, madam?"
Madam: "Oh, yes, they fit me perfectly; but they hurt me terribly when I try to walk."