"Why don’t you get a wider brush?” asked a passer-by of a negro painting a fence. “You could do twice as much work." "’Cause ah ain’t got twice as much work to do," the painter answered. Jones: Can you beat it? Brown: What now? Jones: They sold me this furniture on the “pay-as-you-can” plan, and now they insist I pay when I can't. "Why did you take your little sister’s chocolate, Willie? Why didn't you ask her if you could have it?” “I did, mummy, and she said I couldn't.'’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1939, Page 8
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