Walking through the village street one day, the widowed Lady Bountiful met old Farmer Stubbs on his way to market. Her greeting went unnoticed.
Stubbs, said she, indignantly, "you might at least raise your hat to me!"
I beg your pardon, m'lady, was the reply, "but my poor wife ain't dead moren' two weeks, and I ain't started lookin' at the wimmen yet!"