A city mouse had a country mouse stay for the weekend, and spent the whole time offering urban advice.
On the last evening of the country mouse’s visit, they were dining in the kitchen when in came the largest cat the country mouse had ever seen.
“Don’t panic,” said the town mouse, “Leave this to me.”
Marching up to the cat she said, “Bow wow wow wow!”
The cat turned and ran from the room.
“How did you do that?” asked the country mouse.
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“Like I told you,” said the town mouse, “it pays to learn a second language.”
A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars
A 6th-grade teacher posed the following problem to one of her arithmetic classes:
“A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars.
One-fifth is to go to his wife, one-fifth is to go to his son, one-sixth to his butler, and the rest to charity.
Now, what does each get?”
After a very long silence in the classroom, one little boy raised his hand.
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With complete sincerity in his voice, answered, “A lawyer!”