A JEST OR TWO

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 4

A JEST OR TWO

Played No Favourites. —He was looking for a quiet place to park his car, and seeing a side street, turned into it, put the brake up. and was walking off when a policeman appeared. “You can’t leave your car there.” “Why not? It’s a quiet spot.” “I tell, you you can’t leave it there.” “But, my good man, it’s a cul-de-sac.” “1 don’t care if it’s a Rolls-Royce; out with it.” » * * Call the Bogy Man.—Receiver of Stolen Goods (to dissatisfied burglar): “Oh,-you don’t believe these scales is correct, don’t you. Well, you just fetch along the inspector of weights and measures!" « * « The Futile Hint.—She was a good wife in most ways, but she had one great failing. Never could she be persuaded to sew a button on for him. . At last he made up his mind to see what effect sarcasm would have upon her. “Oh, by the way, my dear,” he said, when she was about to go out shopping next, "you might get me some needles and thread, will you?" She turned to him with a benevolent smile. “You .'silly, extravagant boy,” she cooed, “you can always borrow mine, you. know.”