“Rastus,” said the Judge, “your wife complains that you never work. How about it?” “Dat woman’s crazy, Judge,” replied Rastus. “Ask her what Ah was doing de second Toosday in July last yeah.” “Jimmy, dear,” whispered the burglar’s wife as he started on his evening’s work, “try to be a little quieter when you come in to-night.” “Certainly,” replied the husband. “Did I wake you up last night?” “No, but you wakened mother, and I don’t want her to be runningoff to prison and complaining to father that I married an amateur.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4820, 7 August 1939, Page 7
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