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THE LONiT AND THE SHORT OF IT. Schoolmaster,': "How Is It you've written only ten lines fin '/Bilk" when the others have done pages?" , ',' Boy: ,'ft yijcote mine on condensed milk, sir." ~ ■' "GUINEA PIG" (11). Wade//'town. Schotklmaster to class: "If I bought 12 buns for thrfieyence, what would each be?" Boy; l.a back row: "Stale, sir, at that price." "SNOWDROP QUEEN" (13). PsJ^ae. 7 eacher: "You haTen't done ao well in this ter m's exams, Bobby." 'Bobby: 'It Isn't my fault; It's the boy's sittf.ng next to me 1" "JENNY WHEN" (12). Kllbirnle. * • • Jimmy: "You know you told me about the bogey man who lires In the pantry?" Mother: "Yes." Jimmy: "Well, I looked In there just now, .and he has eaten such a lot of jam." "CHERBY CAP" (11). Northland. A man had to sing a Eons, and It started like this: "I remember, I remember the house where I was born." But when he was on the stage, be got stage fright, and said, "I remember, I remember—golly, if I haven't forgot!" "ANITA PAGE" (11). Allramar.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 18
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 18
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