FIRST NAVVY—"Ye know, it's hard lines on Joe, 'im bein' so short-sighted."
SECOND NAVVY—"Why? Yer don't need good eyesight for our job!"
FIRST NAVVY—"No, but 'e can't see when the foreman ain't lookin', so he has to keep on workin' all the time."
A youth was being scored by his father for his flighty notions, his habit of shirking and general unreliability. "Hard work never killed anybody," the old man added.
"That's just the trouble, dad," returned the youngster. "I want to engage in something that has a spice of danger in it."
"Why don't you get out and hustle? Hard work never killed anybody," remarked the philosophical gentleman to whom Rastus applied for a little charity.
"You're mistaken dar, boss," replied Rastus; "I'se lost fouh wives dat way."