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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 9

Schoolmistress: “ Dorothea Robinson, Ihavo to ask you a very serious question. Did I overhear you say that T was an old idiot?” Pupil: “Y—yes. Miss Pringle.” "Well, Pm glad you speak the truth, anyhow.” The housepainter had finished his task and was about to leave. “By the way,” said the mistress of the house, "could you spare time to scrape the spots, of paint. off the windows?” “ Well, we don’t usually do that,” said the painter; “ but if you’ll lend mo half a crown I’U have a go at it,” An hour later the man returned to her a very worn and thin sixpence. “ But —er-~-(. think I gate you half a crown,” stammered the woman. “ That’s-right, ma’am,” replied the painter artfully, " hut t worked so hard that I wore it down to this,’’