A man who was very cross-eyed happened to put his hand into another man’s pocket, and took out his watch. He told the judge that he “only wanted to know the time.” And the judge said it was “Three years.”
OLD MAN SNUCKLES
One night after saying her prayers before going to bed, a nine-year-old girl astonished her mother by innocently asking:
“Mother, who is Old Man Snuckles?”
“Why, my child, I never heard of a man by that name.”
“Oh, yes, mother,” said the child, “there must be some such man, for I pray for him every night.”
“Pray for Old Man Snuckles, my child? Why, what do you mean?”
“Why, yes, mother. You know I pray for God to bless father and mother, brother and sister and ‘Old Man Snuckles.’ Who is he?”
Her mother saw by and by that it meant “All my aunts and uncles!”