They were on their honeymoon. He had bought a catboat and had taken her out to show her how well he could handle a boat, putting her to tend the sheet. A puff of wind came, and he shouted in no uncertain tones, “Let go the sheet.” No response. Then again, “Let go that sheet, quick.” Still no movement. A few minutes later, when both were clinging to the bottom of the overturned boat, he said:
“Why didn’t you let go that sheet when I told you to, dear?”
“I would have,” said the bride, “if you had not been so rough about it. You ought to speak more kindly to your wife.”
Madam—“Put plenty of nuts in the cake.”
Cook—“I’ll crack no more nuts to-day, me jaw hurts me already.”
Mother—“Alice, it is bedtime. All the little chickens have gone to bed.”
Alice—“Yes, mama, and so has the hen.”