—Customer: “Is your bread nice and light?”
Baker’s boy: “Yessum; it only weighs nine ounces to the pound!”
—“Home, Sweet Home”—a bee-hive.
—The egotist lives on an I-land.
—The Bank of England—a fog-bank.
—“April showers bring forth May flowers.”
Said Flora to her brother Bob: “Robert, dear, what do April showers bring forth?”
Said Bob: “Umbrellas, of course!”
—“Don’t you find the people around here very sociable?” asked Cobwigger of a new neighbor.
“Yes, indeed, I do,” was the hearty response. “Only a moment ago I met a beggar, and he held out his hand to me.”