JUST FOR FUN

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 4, 14 June 1928, Page 6

JUST FOR FUN

Teacher/ u- Don't you know that it is wrong to come to school when your mother has influenza? She might give it to you, and then the whole school "will get it." . Tommy: "No fear of that mum. She's my stepmother and she wouldn't give me anyfinkl" *■'.»..♦ * . * Jones: "Since my fiancee rejected me I cannot sloop at night. What shall I take for it, Doctor?" Doctor: "Another fiancee." * * * • Hubby: "Do you know, my dear, there's something wrong with the cake. It doesn't* taste right.' Bride: "That's all your imagination, for it .says in my new cookery-book that it is delicious.' 7' * • * * ' .• Patient: Doctor, what are. my chances?" Doctor: "Oh pretty good; but don't start reading any serial stories." * * * * * Binks: ''What sort of time is your friend having on his motor-cycle?" Jinks: "Great! I've had two lettersfrom him —one from, a police station, andjthe other from a hospital." *'■.*. *■* * * Jones: "I thought you wanted to mar ry Miss Miller?" Smith: "I did once, but; after what she said to me yesterday I have no more interest in her." ~ . Jones: "What did she say?" Smith: "No."

Call or: "Does your cook give yon. any impertinence?" , Mistress: "Oh., dear no. I pay her two pounds a week for it." ■ * * * * • Maud: "There's the girl Bernard" broke off his engagement with." Claude: "Oh really.?- She looks sad; d'you think she >s taking it to heartf* Maud; "I don't, know; but she'staking it to court." . * * . * * 4? She: "When does a book become a classic?" He: ""When people who haven't read it begin to say they have.'' * * «■ * * ''Doctor you ought to charge ma very little, out of thankfulness." "How is that?" "It was through my little Emil that measles spread in the whole neighbourhood." * * * * * Daughter of Cannibal Family: "SayMa, I'm bringing a young man homo for dinner." Mother: "Well, don't bring a tough one that's all!" * * * * # Cora (spitefully): "Haven't I seen you in that frock before?" Cynthia: "T think not. I've worn" it only at fashionable affairs so far!" * * * .-*■•'* . She: "I kiss nobody but my brothers* ***■' He: "I say! What lodge or society do you belong to ? " * * * * * Country Policeman: "You cannot camp here." Gipsy: "I have the verbal permission of the mayor." * Policeman: "Show it to me." I.** * * * Lady: ''Can one take castor oil witkout tasting it? " Chemist's Assistant: "I will inquire if* you can wait. Will you have some lemonade in the meantime?" "Lady (drinking lemonade) tc Now can you tell me about the castor oil?" joke—you have already taken the oil." . Lady: ' * But I wanted it for my little, brother!" \".' . ' ■:^ : y<:yr>;\'.::'-^:. \ (Gtemist'a Assistant: **it^wasiaJittlc^