“Yes, I helped a genuine case yesterday, sergeant,” said the charitable old lady to the" policeman. “ A tall rod-headed man/ He said that he was a prisoner during the war.” “ Why,' that was Slinky Ilobbom, a notorious pickpocket. He served a five-year sentence in gaol from 1914 to 1919.” Wifey; “Lot’s see, what month is it they say it is unlucky to many’in P”■ Hubby: “Don’t tell me you havo forgotten iu which mouth we were married.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 1
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77Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 1
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