A GANG of navvies of Ireland were doing some excavating in a hole. The picks and shovels were not working at the speed desired by the foreman. Putting his hands to his mouth he yelled: "All of yez out."
The navvies dropped their implements of toil and scrambled out of the hole.
"All of yez in!" yelled the foreman. The navvies all jumped back into the hole. As soon as they were in the foreman again cried. "All of yez out!"
Out they scrambled. This performance was repeated several times until one of the navvies' asked the foreman what the idea was.
"Well" replied the foreman, "ye take more dirt out on yer boots than ye do on yer shovels. All of yez in!"
Machiavelli Afoot Tae housemaid was under notice to leave, and her mistress summoned her to the drawing-room to tell her a few home truths, "So I'm a flirt, am I?" demanded the maid, after a few preliminaries. "Well, I knows them as flirts more than I do and with less excuse, And another thing, I'm better looking than youd How do I know? Your husband told me so."
"That's enough!" snapped her mistress, "Oh, no, it ain't" the girl went on.
I can kiss better than you can, too.
Do you want to know who told me that?"
E The mistress grew even redder with indigna-. ion.
"you dare to suggest that my hus-
"Oh, no," interrupted the maid, "not him this time. It was the butler."
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