IN LIGHTER VEIN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 222, 19 September 1903, Page 6 (Supplement)

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

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Doctor : Umph—great menial strain —go at once and get a change of scene. Bank Manager: But where to ? Dootor : I should choose a place where there is no extradition treaty. Clancy : Pat, I hear you've bin up to London lookin' aftheryer pinsion. Did yez see the King ? Pat: Oh, bad luck! It was Oi shtood on the earner waithin' to see the King, an' whin he did come it wasn't him. Ethel: Mamma, why is the wife of a knight called " lady" ? Mamma : Because that is her title. Ethel: But can't people see that she's a lady without being told so ? A woman who is asking for legal separation complained that her husband would go for days at a time without speaking to her. That's -just like a woman. You'll never hear of a man going into court for such a thing as that. > Lady Tourist: This must be a very healthy village. Now, what may the death rate be? Old Inhabitant: Wonderful steady, ma'am. Wonderful steady. One death to each person —right along I Have you ever written anything, said his cynical friend, to make the world happier or better ? Rather, quoth the insurance agent, who sometimes dabbled in verse. I ibave written £-10,000 worth of life insurance witbin the last.year.