Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

"All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.

"Almost a hit," said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.

"An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.

"Ascension Thursday" is 40 days after Easter and is when Christ was said to have ascended to heaven.

"Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.