Good Going.
A man, nearly eighty, walked twenty miles from his home to an adjoining town. When he reached his destination he was greeted with some astonishment by an acquaintance. 44 You walked all the way f ” exclaimed, the acquantance. 4 ‘How did you get" along?” “Oh, first rate,” the old man replied. 4 4 That is, I did till I came to that sign out there, ‘Slow Down to Twenty-five Miles Per Hour,* That kept me hack a bit, ’ *■
I read that a plumber forgot to tu\n up for his wedding. If this won't stop the silly jokes about the ulumber, 1 don't know what will.
A wife complained that because the pudding was burned her husband threw it over her. Obviously one of these men who worry over trifles-
3 Then there was the Scot who, when i acted if he counld spare something for j a cup of tea, said: “Da ye think X carry lumps o’ sugar in ma pockets I’’
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 9
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165Good Going. Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 9
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