“And how did you get among the Englishmen?”
The farm-hand scratched his head, grinned, and said: “I ran away from here, because I did not want to be a soldier.”
The Last Train
“Could you tell me when the last train for Potsdam is going to leave?” asked a traveler of his neighbor at the station.
“Well,” said he dryly, “I don’t suppose either of us will live to catch it.”
A Questionable Dish
A German merchant dining with a Chinese Mandarin at Hongkong, seemed to be very much pleased with the foreign dishes. He had just been enjoying a roast, when the disquieting thought struck him, that he might have been dining off a cat, as he had been told that the Chinese ate cats as well as rats. He determined to find out. But unluckily the Chinaman did not speak German, and the German did not understand Chinese, so the latter pointed at the dish saying: “Miau, miau!”
“Wow, wow!” said the Chinaman, shaking his head.
The Host Could Not Leave
At a large evening party, one of the guests stood in a corner yawning.