SMILE AWHILE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 15

SMILE AWHILE.

' One day a gentleman discovered a groat heap of rubbish at the end of b.13 courtyard, and was very angry with !»ia manager for., pot having "bad it cleared a\y'ay. As an excuse the man declared that he could not find a dustman, anywhere. "Dustman!" cried his master. "Why don't you dig a hole in the centre of the yard and bury the rubbish in it?" "But where could I put the earth that would be dug out of the hole?" asked the manager. "Whoro is the difficulty about that?" cripd Hia master. "Of course you must make the bolo so largo that everything will go into it." Wife (to husband who is ill): "Why, nurse is 'reading ii book. Who gave it her*"' ■, . ■ . . / Literary Husbaud (meekly): "I did." Wife:' "What book is ifl" Husband: "My latest," Wife: (<Ob, my dearl And it's'so mv porliant that ehe'should not goto sleepl" A Bian over sixty, years old- one day bought a raven, and when he was asked what ho was going to do with it he xepliod: "I am going to sob if if; is true that this bird lives for threo hundred years." Two boys wanted to play a trick on their teacher, so they painted the face of a monkey on thc/b^k of his coat aa it hung Oh its hook, '....■■ •'..■.■ The master eamq.in to t]ie room, und, secipg tho caridattirc, deinimded— "Wlio has cleaned his face on my over- ! coat!"-