Landlady: You say this chicken soup isn t good? 1 toll! the cook hovr to make it! Perhaps she didn’t catch the idea? Boarder: I think it was the chicken she didn’t catch.
Nohhs: Mrs Smith is simply mad on the subject of germs, and sterilises or filters everything in the; house. Dodds: How does she get along with her husband? Nobbs: Oh. even their- relations are strained !
Little Mary had been taught politeness, and was an apt pupil. Ope day the minister called. Mary, waiting carefully for a pause in the conversation, remarked, ”1 hear we are going to have the pleasure of losing you.”
_Schoolmistress: ':Now, children, what did the? Romans do for the Britons’” •Small Gill: ‘‘Thev civilised ’em. miss.”
How did they do th.tr?” Girl: “Please, miss, they taught ’em how to fight.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 May 1927, Page 2
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