CHARLES—"Girls wish they were men."
HERBERT—"Why do you say that?"
"Because spinsters like to call themselves 'bachelor girls,' but no bachelor ever calls himself an 'old-maid man.'"
There is nothing like a good definition, as the teacher thought when he explained the meaning of "old maid," as a woman who had been made a long time.
STAMMERING
They were going home from school.
"Teacher said that that that that that girl used was superfluous."
"Here's the first pupil for my stammering school," said the business man as he introduced himself.