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Tom: Did your watch stop when you dropped it on the floor? Jack: Certainly. Did you think it wouH CO through? Jtaiidy: Is yo' husband worMn'? Jemima: Not dat useless, nigsw. He Jus' loaf •n' Bleep nil d»y.' ■< « . ." Mandy: Why. 1 heard lie took a new poslshua yesterday. Jemima: Yep, be rolled orah'on his back. ■ "So you have "engaged our former cook?"] "Yes, but don't worry, we don t bellevat a tenth of what she sajs about you." -Visitor: And how old, is jour1 bsb'y, dew* Small' Sister: He isn't old »t til. He's «,• this year's model. : ' Father: How la It you- never .remember what you have learned at school during th», day? Tommy Bangs always knows what th« teacher has said, and van tell his father when he gets home. Son; Yes, but he Hires A lot nearer school, Tho Sunday school teacher had just read aloud . the. parable of the prodigal'son to a> cUbs of small boys. ' i "Now," she said, "who was it who was the least pleased to see the prodigal ton return?" ■ ■ ■ , The auestlon rather puzzled the class, but at last a. small voice replied: "Please, miss, the fatted calf!" ' "This Is a hard old world," 'said rat at he knocked off for th« *iy. < "Tli," said Mike. . "01 be thlnkia' th« same thins Ivery tolme I put me pick In It" The grocer was busy serving « customer* but he noticed a small boy standing near an open box of sweet crackers. •"Now, then, my lad," said the grocer,l "What arc you up to!" "Nothing." ■ ■ "Nothing? Well it looks as if you were trying to take a. cracker." "You're wrong, mister. I'm trying not- I*" "Look out. Mary, you'll drop the baby." "Oh, that's all ntliu rapa !<t iayg_]ia'|jf
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 20
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298SMILE AWHILE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 20
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