The stout woman, after looking about the car for a while, noticed two young ladies standing near her and, turning to the small boy beside her, said:
"Little boy, why don't you get up and let one of those young ladies sit down?"
"Why don't you get up and let 'em both sit down?" replied the boy much to the amusement of the rest of the passengers.
A GOOD REASON
A professor tells this story at his own expense:
He was instructing a class of boys about the circulation of the blood and to make sure that they understood him he said, "Can you tell me why it is that if I stood on my head the blood would rush to my head, and when I stand on my feet, there is no rush of blood to the feet?"
Then a small boy after pausing for a short time answered, "It is because your feet are not empty, sir."
IN MOURNING
His wife had been dead but a few weeks when a young farmer living near Reading, Pennsylvania, a typical Berks County German, made good the deficiency and married again. That there should be no violation of the proprieties, however, was soon made plain by his treatment of the bride's proposal that he drive her to town on the following Sunday.
"What!" he exclaimed, "you sink I ride out wit anoter woman so soon after the deat' of my wife?"