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VERY UNFAIR. Mrs. Smitli: "How did Harry get on with bis history examinations, my dear?" Mrs. Jones: "He failed. What else can you expect? Why, they asked' liira questions about things that happened before he was born." • • # THE PROOF. "Are you quite sure that the sheets on my bed ore quite clean?" .said a commerria'l traveller at a country hotel. "Clean! I should say so," replied the landlady. "They have just come from the laundry. Peel them; they're still damp!" QUITE UNNECESSARY. "Martha, did you wash the flsh before you baked it?" "Lor", mum. uo! Wot's the use of washin' a flsh wet's lived all 'is lite in the water?" "DON TEDKO" (13). Island Bay. SLEEPING OUICKLY. "I only slept two hours last night." "You must, be very tired, then?" "Not at all; I sleep very quickly." HOPE. They met at their «club, the famous critic and the bumptious young writer. "Ha, Blank," said the critic, "I've just read "My last one?" asked the youth. "I hope so," was the reply. GOOD WORKMANSHIP. He was very angry with his tailor. "Why, the very first time I put on this coat it split down the back," he said. . "That shows you how weir we sew on the buttons, sir." replied the tailor. RIDDLES TO GUESS. What, is the difference between. a lady and a soldier?— One faces the powder, and the NITA MTHAIL (12). Jliramar. Where does the snowman dance? —In a snow ball. What is the quickest way to make a thin boy fat?— Make him look round. •TIT-A-PAT." (10) Brooklyn.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 16
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263SMILE AWHILE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 16
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