A JEST OR TWO :-

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6851, 5 March 1929, Page 4

A JEST OR TWO :-

"Do you know the light-weight champion of this town?” "Yes. My grocer!" —Viklngen, Oslo.

The Exception— Higgs: ”1 always say that nothing is ever lost through politeness.” Biggs: “What about a man’s seat in a crowded bus?” * * * Candid— She: “Do you know the difference between dancing and marching?” He: “No, I guess not.” She: “I thought so.” * * * The Young Idea— Teacher: “Do you know why the earth turns round the sun on its axis?” Scholar: “Yes, sir, because it don’t want to be roasted too much on one side ” * * .

Sometime, Somewhere —He: "I had a wonderful time at your party last night.” She: “Why, I had no party last night.” He: “That so? Well, believe me, I was at somebody’s party.” * * * Discouraged.—A Frenchman was relating his experiences of learning the English language. “When I discovered that if I was quick I was fast,” he said, “and that if I was tied I was fast, if I spent too freely I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast, I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence, “The first one won one one-dollar prize, I gave up trying to learn English.’

“You were doing at least thirty miles an hourl” “Impossible, I haven't been out for twenty minutes!" —Pele Mele, Paris.

“What? He wants 8,000 marks as dowry? I will offer him (5,000. He will probably bargain with me for her!" —Gemutliche Sache, Leipzig.