Professor: “I have lost my gold glasses—would you put an advertisement in your paper offering ten shillings reward to the person who helps , me* 3 find them?” Newspaper Clerk:! “ Certainly— the charge will be eight shillings.” (Prolessor pays.) “ You have your spectacles on your nose. Professor: “Really? So I have. Oh, pardon me. May I have my eight shillings back?” Clerk: “ No; 1 want two , shiTliugs more for my reward.”- |
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Evening Star, Issue 22956, 13 May 1938, Page 1
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