A SCHOOLBOY'S JOKE.
One day this summer a lady and her little boy were travelling front Kidderminster to Birmingham. la the same compartment were a rather prim-looking elderly lady, a rather shy-looking curate, and' a schoolboy. While passing under a tunnel, a loud smack was heard, and" whenthe train emerged" once more into daylight, the faces of both curate and lady were as red as poppies, and* Bioth were evidently much confused. When the train reached" New-street,, and the elderly lady and" curate had" departed, the schoolboy said, with a knowing wink, "That was all right, wasn't iti' I kissed" the back", of my Hand."'
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7383, 8 February 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)
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105A SCHOOLBOY'S JOKE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7383, 8 February 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)
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