Annals of Facial Hair, CXIV

"So what do you think about my buttermilk catcher? Do you remember that Kipling yarn you told me about?"

"Yes."

"What was it that girl said?'

"She said kissing a man without a mustache was like eating eggs without salt.

"You like eggs without salt, don't you?"

"No, I'll have mine plain."

—The Whole Wide World