“Do you ever work in the garden?” inquired a friend of a financier. “ Well,” remarked the latter reflectively, “ I sometimes water my stocks.” Algy: “I called upon the rich Mr Moneybags this afternoon and made a formal proposal for his _ daughter’s hand.” Bertie: “Ah, indeed, and what was the outcome.” Algy (very sadly); “ I was.” “ I’ve no sympathy for the man who beats Ids wife,” said a passenger in the smoker. “ Well,” said another, a timid, under-sized fellow, “ a man who can beat his wife doesn’t need sympathy.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 3
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