Two Negroes who had just robbed a farmer's hen roost were making fast time over the fields.
"Law Mose," gasped Sambo, "why you' s'pose dem flies follow us so close?
"Keep galloping, nigger," said Mose.
"Dem aint's flies, dem are buckshot,"
Inquisitive OnE of Bishop How's stories was of a little boy, aged three, who was taken into his mother's room to see a new-born baby. He wanted to know where' it came from, and was told it came from Heaven, "Has it any wings?" he asked, "Oh, no," replied the mother. "Hasn't it any feathers at a11?"
8 Progress A TRUE story is told of two unemployed men who were watching a big excavating job being done by machinery.
"If it wasn't for those machines," said one, 000 might be using shovels."
"Yes," replied the other; "and if it wasn't for those shovels, 1,000,000 men might' be using teaspoons,"
Informed An amusing story was told in the "Star" of a headmaster who said he found his recommendation was sometimes of more use than examination results in getting a boy a job. One boy, whom he sent to be interviewed, had to admit that he had done badly in examinations.
"Never mind," said the business man. "What do our shares stand at to-day?"
"Fifty-two and sixpence," said the boy, and got the job.
"And how did the boy know that?" the schoolmaster was asked.
"Because I told him just before he went," was the reply.
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