"If your rascally collectors are permitted to continue coming to our doors with unblushing footsteps, with cloaks of hypocritical compunction in their mouths, and compel payment from your patrons, this policy will result in cutting the wool off the sheep that lays the golden egg, until you have pumped it dry—and then farewell, a long farewell, to our vaunted prosperity."
MICE
"What's the matter with Briggs?"
"He was getting shaved by a lady barber when a mouse ran across the floor."—Life.
MIDDLE CLASSES
WILLIE—"Paw, what is the middle class?"
PAW—"The middle class consists of people who are not poor enough to accept charity and not rich enough to donate anything."