"Let him up. Can't you see you'll hurt him?"
At this both the negroes burst out laughing, and the one on top cried:
"Yah! yah! Let him up! Why, boss, Ise had too much trouble to git 'im down. Hi! hi!"
Teacher. "What is the principal product of value derived from the seal?"
Johnny (unhesitatingly). "Sealing-wax."
"Ma, where is Atoms?"
"Athens, you mean, my boy; don't you?"
"No, ma'am; I mean Atoms; because when a person is in a boiler explosion, they always say he is blown to Atoms."