“‘We go every morning to be married,’ answered one of the old crones, ‘and we have been for the last forty years!’
“‘Then why are you not married?’
“‘The priest says that we do not bring the right thing. We carry something new every morning.’
“‘But why do you not take a man?’
“‘A man!’ exclaimed the old woman, leaping straight into the air. ‘A man? I never thought of that! How wise you be! Why, you are the wisest man that I ever did see!’
LIMESTONE DWELLINGS.
“The sheriff next met some men who had started on a journey, each of whom carried on his back a door.
“‘Why do you carry that door?’ asked the sheriff of one of the travellers.