Half and Half
Mrs. Murphy is very fat, and the other day, laden with parcels and packages, she was trying to mount the steps of a Dublin tramcar. Helplessly looking on, stood the conductor, a diminutive little chap.
Mrs. Murphy, having reached the platform, said, with a glance of withering scorn: “If ye was half a man ye would have helped me up.”
The little conductor calmly replied: “Shure, ma’am, if ye was half a woman I would!”