CALLER—"Is your mother at home, Elsie?"
CHILD OF BUSY WAR WORKER—"Goodness, no! She won't be at home today until about Saturday. Why, she hasn't got home yesterday yet."—Life.
FIRST LOAFER—"I 'ear all the men 'ave gone on strike."
SECOND LOAFER—"Wat 'ave they struck for?"
FIRST LOAFER—"Shorter hours."
SECOND LOAFER—"I always said as 'ow sixty minutes was too long for an hour."
"Time is precious," said the parson.
"It is, indeed," rejoined the business man, "and I've wasted an awful lot of it."