"Well, Teddy, have you been a good boy to-day?" asked his mother upon her return home late in the afternoon.
"No, ma'am," replied the truthful Ted.
"I hope you have not been a bad boy?"
"No, ma'am; not a very bad boy and not a very good boy—just comfortable!"
"What time is it, my lad?" asked an American traveller of a small Irish boy, who was driving a couple of cows home from the fields.
"About twelve o'clock, sir," replied the boy.
"I thought it was more."
"It's never any more here," returned the lad, in surprise. "It just begins at one again."