TO RAISE A SMILE
Professional Photographer; Now watch and you’ll see the little dicky bird come out.
Modern Small Boy; Don’t be silly—expose the plate and get it over. Mrs Brown, who kept a sweet shop, slept in a room above her shop, and one night she heard someone knocking at the shop door. She opened the window and peeped out. “Please Mrs Brown.” came the voice of a small boy, "one of your windows is open.”
“Which one?” said Mrs Brown. “Pl-please, the one you’re looking out of.”
A teacher in one of our public schools, after laboriously and exhaustively explaining to her pupils the meaning of the word “income,” told tittle Tommy to go to the blackboard, and write a sentence containing the new word, and read it aloud to the school. Tommy, his freckled face fairly radiant with pride of his newlyacquired knowledge, marched to the board, and, after considerable tonguechewing, evolved; "In come a cat”
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 2
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159TO RAISE A SMILE Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 2
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