"What is the meaning of the saying that a man shall earn his bread in the sweat of his brow?" asked a boy in a New York school.
"Have you never observed a man working on a warm day?" asked the teacher.
"No, don't think I ever saw one."
"What does your father do on a right hot day?"
"He goes in bathing out at Coney Island."
"What is your father's business?"
"He is a walking delegate."
[62] A tramp asked a farmer for something to eat
One day as he chanced there to stop,
The kind hearted farmer went out to the shed
And gave him an axe and feelingly said:
"Now just help yourself to a chop."