professor chuckled as he wrote this down. He was sure he would "pluck"
half the students on that question and it was beyond a doubt that that
opprobrious young loafer Thompson would fail. But when the professor read
the examination papers, Thompson, who had not answered another question,
was the only man who had solved the polar problem. This was Thompson's
answer: "Six seals and six polar bears." Thompson got his degree with
distinction.


38. DOUBLE EDUCATION

A young doctor, wishing to make a good impression upon a German farmer,
mentioned the fact that he had received a double education, as it were. He
had studied homoeopathy, and was also a graduate of a "regular" medical
school. "Oh! dot vas noding," said the farmer, "I had vonce a calf vot
sucked two cows, and he made nothing but a common schteer after all."


39. REMNANTS

[This and the preceding have a little spice of ill-nature, and while
enjoyable must be applied carefully.]

Wife--"Such a dream as I had last night, dear!"

Husband--"May I hear about it?"

"Well, yes; I dreamed I was in a great establishment where they sold
husbands. They were beauties; some in glass cases and marked at fearful
prices, and others were sold at less figures. Girls were paying out