HUMOUR
Mrs Buggins met Mr» Huggins, an 'old neighbour, while ehoopping. “How long has your husband been working at the breweTj, Mrs Huggins?” asked Mrs Buggins. “He'll have been there five months to-morrow,” replied her friend. “And how does he like his job?” “Very well, I think. He’s not been able to tell me yet.”
The morbid-looking man oatered M pet stores.
“I shall be sending say mrrtbait> law along with my dog to be poieeraod* Will you be ready?” “Certainly, sir,” replied tbo Mate* tant. * 'Will the dog be able he dad Hb way home?”
Johnny had been fighting, and when he came homo very dilapidated his mother cried: “Look at your new suit &11 tattered and torn; I'll have to buy you a new one! ” “Don’t worry, mother,” replied Johnny. “I think Freddie’s mother will have to buy a new boy.”
A eergeant was training a bunch ef raw recruits on the rifle range. At 100 yards every one of them missed the target. At fifty yards the reanlt was the samo. He moved them ip to the twenty-flve-yards Tange, and still not a bullet hit the target.
Enraged, the sergeant shouted: “Fix bayonets; charge!”
“Waiter, there seems to be a smell of painting here!** ‘ ‘ Ye?, but the two ladies are ready to go now! ,f
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 13
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218HUMOUR Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 13
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