First navvy: "Ye know, hard lines on Joe, im being so short-sighted.
Second navvy: "Why?".
First navvy: "'E cant see when the foreman ain't look so 'e as to keep on workin' all the time."
Women Heavy women command more attention than thin ones, and usually have more friends, They're not so apt to be preoccupied with clothes. Women who' think of nothing but clothes bore men because they haven't time to be nice to them.
Heavenly Pugilist had been a notorious rough neck. A few days after his funeral his widow was out shopping when a friend stopped to sympathize with her.
"Poor Bill" the friend remarked, Ell be "itting the arp with the angels now."
"Not Bill" replied the widow, with, feeling, more likely 'eld be itting the h'angels wiv the arp."
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