Flipkins Couldn't See It.
Flipkins came down to the club the other night " with a great problem weighing on his mind. 1 If I should stand on my head/ said he, coming up to the boys with the air of a man who has got a poser — -* if X stand on my head the blood ail rushea into my head, doesn't it?' No one ventured to contradict liinu 'Now,' continued he, triumphantly, 1 when I stand on my feet why doesn't the blood ail rush to my feet V 1 Because,'; replied Miss Ooshannigan's brother, 'because, Flipkins, your feet are not empty.' The boys all laughed, but Flipkina said he couldn't see any joke.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XII, Issue 598, 1 January 1886, Page 5
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