"You will find that the men most likely to get off the note are those who never really got on to it."—Musical Times.
The real question is how those who never got on to the note contrive to get off it.
Mother (reading paper). "I see a baker's been fined ten pounds for selling bread less than twelve hours old."
Alan (who now goes to school by train—joining in). "Oh, think! and he might have pulled the cord and stopped the train twice for that!"