“Well, what air they doin’ over there?”
“Dey vas shellin’ corn for dere hosses. Haw! haw! haw!”
“But that hain’t no joke.”
“Dond id?” asked Hans in surprise. “Vell, if id dond now, it used to pe.”
Sam Ward was once seated opposite a well-known senator at a dinner in Washington. The senator was very bald, and the light shining brilliantly on the breadth of his scalp attracted Ward’s attention.
“Can you tell me,” said he to his neighbor, “why that senator’s head is like Alaska?”
“I’m sure I don’t know,” was the answer.
“Because it is a great white bear place.”
The man was immensely tickled and he at once hailed the senator across the table: