portioned out and each one given an aqual share with ivery other one?"

The Englishman replied: "Well, Pat, if we were to divide today, in ten
years I would have ten thousand pounds and you wouldn't have a
shilling."

"Then we would divide again," said the Irishman.

On an electric car going out of New York City, a man, who occupied a
seat next to the aisle, had a pet monkey in a cage on the seat with
him, next to the window. An Irishman boarded the car and seeing all
the seats taken he remained standing, holding on to a strap, when
suddenly he spied the monkey in the cage. He immediately addressed the
man who had the monkey:

"Sir, is that gintleman in the cage paying his fare? If not, I'd like
to have the sate."

The owner of the monkey lifted the cage to his lap and moved over,
giving the Irishman a seat.

"What's the nationality of that gintleman, anyway?" asked Pat.

By this time the other man was very much out of humor and said: "He's
half ape and half Irish."

"Faith, then he's related to both of us," replied the witty son of
Erin, and there were two monkeys on that car.

I'll admit this trait of humor comes in sometimes when it is quite