Cowardice


The old farmer and his wife visited the menagerie. When they halted

before the hippopotamus cage, he remarked admiringly:



"Darn'd curi's fish, ain't it, ma?"



"That ain't a fish," the wife announced. "That's a rep-tile."



It was thus that the argument began. It progressed to a point of such

violence that the old lady began belaboring the husband with her

umbrella. The old man dodged and ran, with the wife in pursuit. The

trainer had just opened the door of the lions' cage, and the farmer

popped in. He crowded in behind the largest lion and peered over its

shoulder fearfully at his wife, who, on the other side of the bars,

shook her umbrella furiously.



"Coward!" she shouted. "Coward!"



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