SMILE AWHILE
There was once a lady who put an advertisement in a paper. This is what it was:— "A table wanted by a lady with carved legs."! ' "BILLOW." City. • • • Inquiring child: "Did you and Daddy descend from gorillas, Mummy?" Mother: "I didn't, darling." • "EPAMENONDAS." Otaki. Diner: "I say, bring the manager at once. There is a beetle in my soup." Waiter: "Oh, it is nu use bringing him, sir. He is afraid of beetles." "WEAKY WILLIE." Lower Hutt.
Grammar lesson was in full swK*. and the teacher was explaining thS meaning of adjectives. ...:... ... "Some adjectives,' 3, he said, /-'ar«i made ■ from shorter words by adding * ous,' such as dangerous, meaning full of danger. Can any boy give : mo another example?" . "Yes, sir," said a fat boy. "Piom —full of pie." "NEDDY.*'Eastbourne.. • . , , Manager: • "You say you can' take down dictation perfectly, yet you spell 'physical' with an 'f'." Typist: "But that's because tho 't* on my .typewrite* is.broken," ,' . "FAIRY QUEEN.1? , 'City. ' ■ :., :■ ■■~• -/ ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 20
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161SMILE AWHILE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 20
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