PROOF POSITIVE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1913, Page 6

PROOF POSITIVE.

There was a barber who was accused of secret inebriety, but (his old' patrons refused to credit such a charge. A staunch old patron went to the man to be shaved one morning. The barber in silence began to lather him, and then suddenly seized him by the mose.

Lathering away, the barber gripped the nose so firmly that its owner grunted in pain. "Here, let go my nose!" But the barber, still holding on tight, said as hie lathered' .steadily on: "Can't! If I did I'd fall down."