The One Exception.

The applicant for a job as housemaid was being interviewed by the employment agent, and was asked if she had any preference as to the kind of family she would like to work for.

“Any kind,” she said, “except highbrows.”

“You don't like to work for highbrows?”

“You bet I don't,” she said. “I worked for a pair of 'em once—and never again. Him and her was fighting all the time, and it kept me running back and forth from the keyhole to the dictionary 'til I was worn to a frazzle.”

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