SMILE AWHILE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 8

SMILE AWHILE

LIMERICK* There was a young rascal named Ray >yiio slid down the stairs.on a tray; At the bottom he tumbled. And rose rather humbled; 'Til do no more sliding to-day!" "BIQ-PDJUPKE?" (12). Newlands. ' • . * •» . * APT. • A tall minister once preached in a parish church. When he left a small minister came to preach who could only just peep oTer the pulpit. His text was ;_; "'Tis I, Be Not Afraid." -■' . ■ •TAISY BEOWN-ETES" (13). Petone. • .».*. A SURPRISE FOR TEACHER. A little girl was absent from school one morning, but present in the afternoon. Her teacher asked where she had been. "To the cemet'ry, teacher" answered Joan." - "But people usually go to the cemetery on Saturday afternoons or Sundays" said teacher. 1 "So do we," explained Joan, "but, you see. Mother was making jam; and she was short of jam-jars!" - • . ' ■ "LITTLE HOHEBIBD" (S). Karori. ■ *■.-. ■«■ ■•'•*.■ UNLIKELY. One day Irene and her^nurse were walking in the park when Irene saw a white rabbit run across the path in front of her. "Oh, Nurse!" she said,', "did you see that white rabbit?" '. ' ">>'o," said Nurse. -"That was only imagination." "But," said Irene, "has Imagination got awhite tail?" ' • ' .*.■•'■•■■ "samEE" (13). City. •■'.■. ■■■.-. . '■■■*..* 5 \ T POLITENESS. ,-'■■'-.-■ One day a fat man and a thin. man were quarrelling. The fat man said to the thin man: "Anyone looking at you would think there had been a famine 1" And the thin one replied: "Anyone looking rat you would think ' tou had caused it!" "TEBBT" (12). Kelburn. . " . s ' . • - •■;■.' - *;*:'» • ' GUESS THESE! Which is the hottest flower?— The sunflower. Why did the door bolt?— Because it saw the kitchen fire. • Which is the coldest flower?— The .snowdrop. "TBEE-ELF" (7). Kelburn. -