A BROOMSTICK which had long served a witch as a steed complained of the nature of its employment, which it thought degrading.  "Very well," said the Witch, "I will give you work in which you will be associated with intellect - you will come in contact with brains.  I shall present you to a housewife."  "What!" said the Broomstick, "do you consider the hands of a housewife intellectual?"  "I referred," said the Witch, "to the head of her good man."