Chapter XV: A Safe Disgrace (3)

"Well! well! well!" said Newton. "Upon my word, I never thought of that."

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TEACHER. "George, what excuse have you for being late?"

GEORGE. "Only a far-fetched one."

TEACHER. "What do you mean?"

GEORGE. "The conductor of the car carried me several blocks past the school."

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PAPA. "I wonder why it is that when we drop a slice of bread it usually falls with the buttered side down?"

HIS LITTLE BOY. "I guess it's for the same reason that when we fall in winter we wonder why the ice freezes with the slippery side up."

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, January 28, 1896, by Various