Tur old-fashioned doctor had examined the poor man's eyes, and took his wife on one side and said, "I fear expensive optical treatment is beyond your means, but let him wash hi eyes around every morning with a little brandy and I will call and see him again."
The doctor returned in a week and asked how the good man was getting "Alas, doctor," said the wife, "he has tried his best to bathe his eyes, but he can never get the cup past his mouth."
More Nails CARELESSNESS is a bad trait, but as you're only careless with your own affairs, it's really nobody else's bus ness, The trouble is, when that trait gets hold of you, you're liable to be careless in your dealings with other people..
I had a careless cousin down home who got a job with a contractor who was putting' up a big building. The contractor was very strict ana everybody, said my cousin, wouldn't last three days with him. Sure enough, on the second day he was workin' on a high scaffold and he got careless and slipped and fell seven floors.
When he crashed to the ground, all the other workmen gathered round to see if he was dead or not and my cousin looked up and said. "If the boss gets sore, tell him I had io come down here for nails, any 3 how!"
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