THE BEER CAN

Many students become highly involved and dedicated to school activities. Once during the Christmas play, a rowdy, who was drinking beer on the "cat walk" located above the stage, accidentally dropped an empty can that fell noisily on to the stage. Everyone was upset over the disturbance, but no one knew who perpetrated the sacrilegious act. The captain of the stage crew, who was also a tackle on the football team was particularly angry. "Don't worry," he told the teacher who directed the production, "I'll find out who tried to ruin our play, and I'll take care of him myself."

Sure enough, six months later, he encountered a student in front of the school and said that he had heard that he was the one who had dropped the beer can. His foe had barely gotten the words, "Yeah, so what," out of his mouth when he was smashed to the ground with one blow.
 

HAND OF STEEL

Even in his sixties, the assistant football coach was in top shape. He ran five miles every morning, and hit body was as hard as a rock. Some times be would grip a player's arm as he talked to him, occasionally leaving a bruise.

The coach and his wife loved to dance and were always on the floor from the beginning of the evening to the end without taking a rest. Once when Guy Lombardo played in town, he introduced himself to the band leader. While vigorously shaking his hand, the coach told Guy that he had sung two songs for his band when Lombardo had played at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in 1941. With tears in his eyes, Lombardo looked at the coach and said, "Let go of my hand, you dumb ass, you're hurting me."
 

THE FARMER

Mr. L and his wife, who also was a teacher, owned a farm. One spring vacation they had the unpleasant task of spreading cow manure from a farm wagon. Both were knee deep in the stuff and were spreading it with pitch forks onto the field. Suddenly, Mr. L's wife, a woman with an infinite dry wit, looked at her husband and said, "I wonder what the superintendent is doing!"