"Yes."
"Then you must be as strong as a man!"
"I am."
"And you wouldn't let a man beat you—not even if he was your husband—would you?"
"Indeed I wouldn't," the missionary said.
The mandarin's eight wives looked at one another, nodding their heads. Then the oldest said softly:
"Now I understand why the foreign devil never has more than one wife. He is afraid!"—Western Christian Advocate.
PAT—"I hear your woife is sick, Moike."
MIKE—"She is thot."