Many a man who says that he works like a barge-horse, is probably thinking of the time when the barge-horse is standing in the stall eating oats.
A word is enough for the wise. This is probably the reason why an advocate has to plead for half a day before a jury.
Kobe Snullemans was about to be married, but he had only two francs, and the priest asked a fee of twenty.
“Oh! your reverence!” said Kobe, “just marry me a little then, as much as you can for two francs!”
Tybaert.
Janneke Snobs—“Mamma, how do the niggers on the Congo know when it is Sunday? they have no clean shirts to put on.”
Conductor (to his clerk)—“Did you give the hundred francs to the chairman of the Board of Works?”