He cut off the motor.
"See those people?" shouted the pilot. "Fifty per cent of them think we are going to fall."
"They've got nothing on us," was the reply that streamed for a half a mile back of the plane; "fifty per cent of us do."
THE PESSIMIST—"The best luck any man can have is never to have been born; but that seldom happens to any one."
Said the weather prophet, "I think it is safest always to predict bad weather."
"Why's that?"
"Well, people are ready to forgive you if you turn out to be wrong."