GARDENER—"I am going to leave, sir. I can't stand the Missus!"
EMPLOYER—"Too strict, is she?"
GARDENER—"Yes, sir. She keeps forgetting that I can leave any time, and bosses me about just as if I was you!"
"Get away from here or I'll call my husband," threatened the hard-faced woman who had just refused the tramp some food.
"Oh, no, you won't," replied the tramp, "because he ain't home."
"How do you know?" asked the woman.
"Because," answered the man as he sidled toward the gate, "a man who marries a woman like you is only home at meal times."