HAVE A LAUGH
Magistrate: “Your wife says you have her terrorized?” Prisoner: “Honestly, sir—” Magistrate: “I do not ask you this , in my official capacity, but as man to man, do you understand?” Prisoner: “Yes, your worship.” s Magistrate: “What’s your secret?” : Little-Tommy was asked the. difference between prose and poetry. He wondered a . while and then said, “There was a young man named Rees, who went into the sea up to his ankles.” • ’ ■ • “That’s prose,” he said, “but if the water had been a few inches r higher, it would have been poetry.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12730, 1 May 1939, Page 2
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