Show 1 or company the late william M evarts was a great lawyer but not too exalted to appreciate a joke at his own expense while he was in the united states senate his family which included many daughters spent the greater portion of the time on a farm near wind sor vermont which its distinguished owner made pay by crediting the farm with everything taken from it and charging nothing put on one spring he received a letter from his youngest daughter dated from windsor which so tickled his sense of hu mor that he passed it around for his colleagues to read dear papa it said do come home my donkey Is very lonesome without you |