SMILE AWHILE.
Tourist: Wasn't thefre a great battle fought here! - Old George: Ay, I do mind it when I were;a boy, I do! Tourist: But, my good-man, it was nearly six;hundred years ago. .Old George: Dear, dear! How time do fly, to be-sure! ■ ; Well,' Tommy, have you caught any fish*: ' ; •■ ' ■ •. ' - • Yes, I caught two, but the poor little things were so young they did not know how to hold on! I hear you dined with the Browns in their new home the other day. What was it like! Ohj pretty flat. . I mean—er—very pretty flat. He had been sitting there for hours and the fish would mot bite.' He was annoyed, too, by a small nursemaid "with a child who stood eagerly watching him. So be began slowly to prepare for the return home. . . ; . The nursemaid (in deep disappoint^ ment): Oh, sir, do please let baby see yon catch a fish!- • - • -. ; I suppose there's no ptomaine in this pie, waiter t /'.. : ■ :. I'm afraid not, sir. We never, put that in unless specially ordered! :
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14
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173SMILE AWHILE. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14
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