PUP—"Great cats; That's a nerve! Somebody has put up a building right where I buried a bone!"—Puck.
See also Dachshunds.
DOMESTIC FINANCE
LITTLE TOMMY—"What does 'close quarters' mean, Ma?"
WEARY MOTHER—"It's a definition of my trying to get twenty-five cents from your father."
"Ma, what does the 'home-stretch' mean?"
"Making a fifteen-dollar-a-week allowance go around, my son."