Ijady Hypochondriac: “I suffer a great j deal with my eyes, doctor.'’ Busy Doc- ! tor : " You’d suffer a great deal more with--1 out them, madame." I Mistress (engaging young servant) : “But do you always stammer like that?’’ Applicant : “ X-n-no-no, m-ina'm : unlv w-w-wheu 1 t-t-talk.” “What's that thing yer got atween th« shafts o’ yer cab, matey?” “ Why, can't j you see? That’s my ’css. Wliat do you think it is?' “ Oh. I thought it was one lof these 'ere X-ray photograph.;. Yer can I only see the skelinglon.” I Doctor: “ Well, John, how arc you today?’’ John; “Verra bad. vena bad. I wish Providence ’ud ’ave massy on me an' take mo!” Wife: “'Ow can you expert it to if you won't take the doctor's p’lycic?" I Teacher (to youngster who lias been mis- ' behaving): “ Xow, Bobby, don’t you know j where bad buys go?” Bobby: “Yee, mess, across their mother's knee.”
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Evening Star, Issue 14226, 27 November 1909, Page 8
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152Page 8 Advertisements Column 6 Evening Star, Issue 14226, 27 November 1909, Page 8
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