SPORTING OFFER.
The stranger stopped outside the jewellery shop and gazed intently at a fine display of silver cups in the window. A few minutes later he was talking to the jeweller. “What are those big silver cups for?” he asked, picking one up and gazing at it critically. “Those are the cups to be awarded as prizes at the sports meeting,” returned the jeweller. “For I’acing?” The jeweller nodded. “Well,” said the stranger, edging nearer the door and still holding the cup, “suppose you race me for this one?”
Little Frank, who had removed with his family to a new house, was taken to visit the new tenants of the old house, with whom his mother was on friendly terms. The chief object of interest was a recently arrived baby. Frank was much taken with the infant, and on his way home remarked: “Mother, it’s a pity we moved from that house. If we’d stayed a bit longer we should have got that baby.”
Astronomer: “The light of the star I am going to show you takes four hours to reach the earth.” Visitor: “Very interesting—but I’m afraid I can’t stay so long.”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIV, Issue 3327, 13 August 1934, Page 2
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194SPORTING OFFER. Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIV, Issue 3327, 13 August 1934, Page 2
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