MIKE WAS FIRST.

Bruce Herald, Volume LV, Issue 63, 18 August 1919, Page 5

MIKE WAS FIRST.

Two Irishmen got a jo"b to clean some lofty windows. They were rather puzzled how to get to them. "Pat," said Mike, "I have it; get a plank ; put it through the window. Oi 'll sit on the plank outside, and you sit on the plank 'inside.'' "All right," replied Pat. All went well until Mike at the outside cried out: "Oi've let the window leather fall." "All right," again replied Pat; "stop where ycz are, and Oi'll get it." Away went Pat downstairs, and getting into the street exclaimed: "Be jabcrs, Mike, ye're here first; which way did you come ?"