Miss Jones' Science Class
Published Jan 01, 1900

Miss Jones had been giving her second-grade students a lesson on science. She had explained about magnets and showed how they would pick up nails and other bits of iron. Now it was question time and she asked, "My name begins with the letter `M' and I pick up things. What am I?"
A little boy on the front row said, "You're a mother."
Originally published November 14, 2002.