"Oh, yes, sah. I winds it up, sah."
"And do you set the alarm?"
"Ev'ry night, sah, I set de alarm, sah."
"But don't you hear the alarm in the morning, Rufus?"
"No, sah, dere's de trouble, sah. Yer see de blame thing goes off while I'm asleep, sah."
Professor Copeland, of Harvard, as the story goes, reproved his students for coming late to class.
"This is a class in English composition," he remarked with sarcasm, "not an afternoon tea."
At the next meeting one girl was twenty minutes late. Professor Copeland waited until she had taken her seat. Then he remarked bitingly:
"How will you have your tea, Miss Brown?"