Biting on the Wrong End

A young mother and her five year old son were busy one morning making their beds. After the mother had finished straightening up her room, she went to see how her son was doing in his room. She arrived in time to find him struggling violently to get a clean pillowcase over a large feather pillow. “Here, son, this is the way to do that,” she said as she took one end of the pillow firmly in her teeth and slipped the cover on. “Oh, mother,” he cried, “I know! I was biting on the wrong end!” In...