Schoolboy’s Clever Trick

An English schoolboy who did not want to go to school, rang his teacher one day and spoke to him in a loud voice. The boy thought that he could speak like his father.

“I am sorry, sir, but Smith is ill in bed and cannot come to school for three or four days.”

“Oh,” said the teacher, “I am sorry to hear that; who is speaking?”

“My father, sir.”