HUMOUR

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

HUMOUR

Two boys were teaching a friend to ride a bicycle. After helping him on to the saddle, they started him off downhill. As he did not return they went in search of him, and meeting an old lady asked her if she had seen a boy on a bicycle. “No/* was the reply, “I’ve seen no one except a boy sitting in a ditch mending umbrellas.

The second hammered on the resined boards. “Hit ’im, hit *iml" ho vainly entreated his principal, but the heavyweight aspirant, hopelessly outclassed, failed to comply. He recoiled dazedly from a vicious attack, and clutched despairingly at the ring post. “Not with that, you fool," shouted his second; 4 * you’ll be disqualified.”

A tradesman was taken ill one night, and suddenly died. His secretary found oa bis desk a letter which the dead man had written the day before, but not scaled. The secretary sealed and sent the Jotter, having added the following postscript:—

‘‘After writing the above, I suddenly passed away."

A certain vicar had two curates; one, a comparatively elderly man, was a fine preacher, much better than the vicar. The other was a young and handsome fellow fresh from college and very popular with the ladies. They were both too popular, anyway, for the vicar’s liking, so he gave them the sack. On their last Sunday at church the older curate preached a farewell sermon at the evening scrviee and took for his text, * 4 Abide ye here with the ass while I and the lad will go up yonder and worship."

Nothing Serious A man with an outsize sense of humour caused a disturbance by rising from his seat in a crowded theatre and asking, “Is there a doctor in the house ! " There was an awkward silence, and no one replied, so a minute later he rose again and asked, “la there a doctor in the house!" A man stood up in a nearby stall and replied, «‘I am a doctor. Is there anything wrong f" The humorous one countered, geni“What do you think of the show,