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Show i SAID THE KETTLE TO THE POT A professor was once accosted by a dirty little boot-black. "Shine your shoes, sir?" The professor was disgusted by j the dirt on the lad's face. "I don't want a shine, my lad," he said, "but If you'll go and wash your face I'll give you a sixpence." 1 "Right guv'nor," replied the boy, as he made his way to a neighboring fountain. Soon he returned looking : much cleaner. "Well, my boy." said the professor, profes-sor, "you have earned your sixpence; six-pence; here it Is." "I don't want your sixpence, guv'nor," guv'-nor," replied the boy. "You 'ang on to It and get your 'air cut." ' |