After the meeting was over, Rastus drew a long breath of relief, and turning to his wife exclaimed:
“Mandy, if he’d said ducks I’d been a lost nigger, suah!”
The late Moses Coit Tyler, so long Professor of History in Cornell, was at one time a popular professor in the University of Michigan. One raw February morning as he was calling the roll of an 8 o’clock class in English, he called “Mr. Robbins,” and receiving no answer called again: “Mr. Robbins?” Still no reply. “Ah,” said Professor Tyler, looking around upon the class in his inimitable manner, “it is rather early for robins.”
He—“Isn’t dinner ready yet?”
She—“No, dear. I got it according to the time you set the clock when you came in last night, and dinner will be ready in four hours.”
A foreigner, meeting an American friend, said to him, “How are you?” The latter replied, “Out of sight.”