THE SECRET KEY

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6496, 4 January 1939, Page 3

THE SECRET KEY

Orchestra Leader: What key are you playing in ? Boob: Skeleton key. "Skeleton key?" "Yes—it fits anything" M #,» *v *v CAUGHT NAPPING It was a warm day, and a dull case concerning the rights of river commissions was being argued. Counsel made speeches of interminable length, and the judge fell into a (K ze. "But v> « must have water here," thundered the defending lawyer in such stentorian tones that the judge "came to." "All righL," he mumbled hastily, ''but only a very little in mine."

WEIGHING HER UP Thump, thump, thump! The visitor was being treated to a display of little Agatha's prowess on the piano. I know the word prowess has a martial sound, but Agatha's playing was like that. In fact, you mightj well think she did it withl military boots. The poundng ceased at last, and the proud mother said*hopefully. "Of course, those scales were entirely self taught. Don't you think it would be worth while to have a teacher?" The visitor shrugged her shoulders and sniffed. "Well," she answered," speaking candid, my dear, if them's scales what she played, it ain't a teacher she wants, it's a Hinspector of Weights and Measures."