CUT BOTH WAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 272, 14 November 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

CUT BOTH WAYS.

The board of school supervisors in a little village in the Far West of America were examining an applicant who desired the position of instructor. The young- man nad satisfied of his knowledge of geography, arithmetic, and grammar. At this point the chairman of the board drew, a magazine from his pocket, peered intently into it, and remarked: "Well, young feller, now we'll see whether you're up in the English language. What's the meanin' o' incomprehensubble?" "Incomprehensubble," faltered the applicant. "Why, incomprehensubble means the proximity of the corollary to the molecular ingenuity." "M'yes. An' what does disintegrate mean?" "Disintegrate means the general consanguinity of the hyperbole when affiliated with the zodiac." "jest so," commented the chairman, nodding sagely at the other members. "Now, what is the deflnin' o' subliminartion?" "Subliminatioa is when the overplus goes into perihelion with the decusation of the instability and produces transflxity of the protoplasms." "You'll do," announced the chairman. The "candidate, overjoyed, shook hands all round, and left to gather his belongings and arrange to move into the neighbourhood. "Purty smart feller, that," observed one member of the board. "Yes," said the <__airman. "Good joke on him, though, me a-makln' him think I knew all them big words, it?" . And down the road, about frail * »»»•• the candidate was chuckling to hhnseK • "Good joke on them. Blest «**"**£ lieve they think I know what all them long i words meant."