HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?
(Sent In by Vera Fell, 75, Kuahine Street, Palmerston No.rthj On the Telephone. "Hello." "This is Mrs. Jones. Will you send up some nice cutlets right away?" "I'm sorry, Mrs. Jones, but we haven't any cutlets. "Oh! Well, send me a couple of nice, lean pork chops." "We haven't any pork chops, either, Mrs. Jones." "Oh, how provoking! Then a small sirloin steak will have to do." "We haven't any steak." "For heaven's sake! Isn't this Smith, the butcher?" "No, this is Smith, the florist." "Oh, well send mo a dozen white carnations. My husband must have starved to death by now." The Target. A negro was asked to supply a tame turkey. The customer insisted that it should be tame, not wild. When he came to carve the turkey he found it full of shot, and he reproached the negro for having supplied a wild bird. "In stric' confidence," explained the negro, "dem shot was intended for me, not de turkey!"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 18
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166HAVE YOU HEARD THESE? Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 18
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