The father was telling at the table of a row between two men in which he
had interfered. One had swung a shovel aloft, shouting, "I'll knock your
brains out!"
"It was at this moment," the head of the family explained, "that I
stepped in between them."
Little Johnnie had been listening, round-eyed with excitement. Now, he
burst forth:
"I guess he couldn't knock any brains out of you, could he, pa?"