Sympathetic Jokes

A big, burly man visited the pastor's home and asked to see the minister's wife, who was well known for her charitable impulses.

As he addressed her he said in a broken voice, "I'd like to draw your attention to the terrible plight of a poor family in this district. The father is dead, the mother is too ill to work, and the nine children are starving. They are about to be turned out into the cold streets unless someone pays their $400 rent payment. "

"How terrible!" exclaimed the preacher's wife. "May I ask who you are?"

The sympathetic visitor wiped his eyes with his handkerchief and sobbed. "I'm the landlord."