An old lady, who was sitting on the porch of a hotel at Asheville, North Carolina, where also there were a number of youngsters, was approached by one of them with this query:
Can you crack nuts?
The old lady smiled and said: "No, my dear, I can't. I lost all my teeth years ago."
Then, said the boy, extending two hands full of walnuts, "please hold these while I go and get some more."