The Department of Labor wishes to report that the workers of Freedonia are demanding shorter hours.

Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to twenty minutes. And now, gentlemen, we've got to start looking for a new Treasurer.

But you appointed one last week!

That's the one I'm looking for.

Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Enough of this. How about taking up the tax?

How about taking up the carpet?

I still insist we must take up the tax.

He's right. You've got to take up the tacks before you can take up the carpet.

I give all my time and energy to my duties and what do I get?

You get awfully tiresome after a while.

Sir, you try my patience!

I don't mind if I do. You must come over and try mine sometime.

That's the last straw. I resign! I wash my hands of the whole business.

That's a good idea. You can wash your neck, too.