"It takes Tom a day and a night to tell a story."
"He'd make a good bookkeeper, I should think."
"Why?"
"Never short in his account."
John—Why is a woman's heart like an umbrella?
Belle—I'm sure I don't know.
"Because it is not considered any harm to steal it."
"Cheer up, friend," said the parson to the dying editor, "you have a bright future before you."