MERRIER MOMENTS.
The milkman doesn't know mucH about the cream of society.
"I can tell you," said he, "hoWi much water runs over Niagara Falls to a quart." ~ "How much?" asked she. "Two pints."
"You say you-have spent hours oa a single line?" "Yes; and sometimes days." "Then you're a poet?" "No; I'm an angler."
The fellow who stands on his dienity may discover that dignity is just as slippery as a banana skin.
"Did you ever catch your husband flirting?"
"That's the way I did catch him." fj
Mrs. Jaysmith —What are you read* ing, Lou? Miss Jaysmith—Pope's poems, ma. Mrs. Jaysmith—Are they the poems of the present Pope or the last?
Poulterer—Why did you return that pair of fowls yesterday?
Customer —Because I thought you had better send them to a home for aged couples.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 272, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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137MERRIER MOMENTS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 272, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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