“ Say,” remarked a : man to the butcher of whom he purchased hia rations, “ that last piece of steak I bought off you must have been from a cow old enough to vote.” “ Was it tough?” innuired the man of meat. “Tough! Well. T should snv it was. 1 could hardly eut.it.” “ Oh, is that all 0 Well, you ought to have heard another man shouting a da.v or two ago. He bought a piece that lie said was so tough that he couldn’t get his fork in the gravy.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25674, 24 December 1945, Page 6
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