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Show 73 VT&M Hubbie "You look tired, dear. Why don't you go to the mountains moun-tains for a nice rest?" Wifie "Oh, I don't know. I don't think the mountain air would agree with me." Hubbie "Well, it would be the first thing that didn't." Teacher "So you want to be older so that you can do many things that your brothers and sisters sis-ters do, eh?" Small boy "Yes, raaam." Teacher "Well, who is the oldest old-est in your family?" Small boy "Daddy is, but he got a head start." "You should be ashamed of yourself," reprimanded the father as he gave his son a dressing down for not having advanced beyond be-yond the errand-boy stage at his place of business. "Why, when George Washington was your age he was hard at work as a surveyor, sur-veyor, earning good money." "Sure," replied the youth in a swift counter-attack, "and when he was your age he was President of the United States." |