30 Jun 2009
Scene in the Kitchen
A woman making bread. Enter little boy.Little Boy.—"Mother, it strikes me you are very lazy just now."
Indignant Mother.—"How dare you say so? why, don't you see I'm making bread?"
Little Boy.—"True, but that's neither more nor less than loafing."
[The juvenile punster got no hot cakes for several days thereafter. His mother is slowly recovering.]
