'I don't know which makes me sicker; to stay in there and listen to them, or come out here and find you thinking they're _funny_!' They are funny!' insisted the Judge tranquilly.

'I stood by the door and listened to the scraps of talk I could catch, till I thought I should have a fit.

I never heard anything funnier on the stage.' 'Looky here, Nat,' the doctor stared up at him angrily, 'they're not monkeys in a zoo, to be looked at only on holidays and then laughed at! They're the other half of a whole that we're half of, and don't you forget it! Why in the world should you think it funny for them to do this tomfool trick all winter and have nervous prostration all summer to pay for it?
You'd lock up a _man_ as a dangerous lunatic if he spent his life so.

What they're like, and what they do with their time and strength concerns us enough sight more than what the tariff is, let me tell you.' 'I admit that what your wife is like concerns you a whole lot!' The Judge laughed good-naturedly in the face of the little old bachelor.

'Don't commence jumping on the American woman so! I won't stand it! She's the noblest of her sex!' 'Do you know why I am bald ?' said Dr.Melton, running his hand over his shining dome.
'If I did, I wouldn't admit it,' the Judge put up a cautious guard, 'because I foresee that whatever I say will be used as evidence against me.' 'I've torn out all my hair in desperation at hearing such men as you claim to admire and respect and wish to advance the American woman.