The family were sitting around the fireside in the evening. Mother was knitting, father reading the newspaper, and the boy was studying words. “Dad,” the boy asked, “what is a fiancee?” Father: “A young lady who is engaged to bo njarried.” Boy; “Then what is a fiasco, dad?” Father: “Oh! that’s the fellow who is going to marry her." A Scotsman from Glasgow went to America and applied to join the police. In the course of his examination by the authorities he was asked • “ What would you do to disperse a crowd?” “Wcel,” replied the Scotsman, “I dinna ken what should be done in New York here, but I ken what 1 would do at home in Glcsca.” “What is that?” “I would send round the hatl"
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Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 17
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127Page 17 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 17
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