HUSBAND: Go on, go on.
WIFE: (reads in an injured tone one and a half pages on the selective processes of pigeons): You're asleep!
HUSBAND: I am not. The last words you read were "to this conclusion."
WIFE: Yes, well, what were the words before that?
HUSBAND: How should I know? I'm not learning the thing to recite somewhere, am I?
WIFE: Well, it's very funny that you didn't notice when I read the last sentence backwards. And if you weren't asleep what were you doing with your eyes closed?
HUSBAND: I got smoke in them and was resting them for a minute. Haven't I got a right to rest my eyes a minute?
WIFE: I suppose it rests your eyes to breathe through your mouth and hold your head way over on one side.
HUSBAND: Yes it does, and wha'd'yer think of that?