In School.
“Now, Pepito, is huevo [egg] masculine or feminine?”
(Pepito, thoughtfully) “It’s very difficult to tell.”
“Difficult? What do you mean?”
“Well, sir, how can one know until the chicken’s hatched?”
An Aragonese carman was unmercifully beating a mule who had fallen down in one of the chief streets of the capital. The passers-by stopped to censure the carman’s conduct, exclaiming—
“How cruel!”
“Poor mule!”
“What a beast the man is!”