IN LIGHTER VEIN .

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 7

IN LIGHTER VEIN .

Not. Loud, but Doop.—\*i!i il?0 <;•„.,_ stable ito villager who im.. ;..^. a _ nnv l-. Ed down In- pacing motor ~r o] ;s t;. 'You didn't see.- tho number, but could you swear to the ma.ii.--Villager: "1. did; but I don't think 'c 'card mo."—"Pune.jj."" The ever-burning question. -What shall nt* do with" our boys?' 1 seems to

be satisfactorily answered in tlio following advertisement, winch appears lithe window of a London shoo: "Wanted, a respectable _boy ior beef sausages." Irate Creditor: "I shall call every wrek until you pay this account. Debtor: '-Really. Then there. ww™ ovory probability of our acqnauitanco ripenine into friendship! "They say that when a mountainclimber" has a fall all -he.sins he ever committed flash through his mind. N as that the case- with you?" "Oh. no. You see, I fell from a ledge only a hundred yards high!' _ boy of twelve years of age, with an air 'oi melancholy resignation, went to his teacher, and handed in. the following note from his mother borore taking hi* scat:—"Dear Sir— Pleaso excuso James for not being present yesterday. He played truant, but you needn't whip him for it. us tho hoy _io played truant with and bun tc-11" out, and ho licked James: and a man they threw stone* at caught him and licked him: and the driver of a cart they hung on to licked him; and the owner of a cat they chased licked him. Tin n I licked him when he came home, after which his father licked him: and T had to (live him another for being impudent to mo for telling his father. So you need not lick him until next time. Ho thinks he will attend regular in future."