(Teacher throws up hands in exasperation. Turns to blackboard.)
“Why Dennis Dockerty that’s not the map of New Jersey.”
Dennis. “Please, ma’am, my big brother says New Jersey’s like a fruit tree, ’cause it’s got a Long Branch, three Oranges and a Lemon.”
Teacher (meditatively): “Y-e-s, East Orange, West Orange and South Orange—but where’s the Lemon?”
Dennis (saucily). “You’re the Lemon.”
Other Scholars. “O-h-h!”
Teacher. “Go to your seat.”
(Dennis goes, shuffling his feet and sulking for some time.)
Teacher. “Curiosity, your father is a sailor; would it be possible for him to start to-day to go round the world, and keep sailing always in the same direction till he came back to his starting-point?”
Curiosity. “No, Miss Fitzimmons, pop’s laid up with rheumatism.”