"Now, that's what's the matter with this country. The idea of a man working all week for two dollars."
A WEALTH OF MEANING
This is told of a Philadelphian whose mother-in-law was alarmingly ill. One night a physician who was attending her shook his head and said, impressively:
"She has got to go to a hot climate. Mind, I don't mean a warm place, but a hot one."
The son-in-law disappeared, but soon emerged from the cellar carrying an axe. Handing it to the doctor, he exclaimed:
"Here, Doc, you do it; I can't."
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