Police-sergeant (to suspect caught in the act): “How do you account for all tlicso things in your possession?” Suspect: “Well, you sec, sir, wo ain’t got no sideboard at homo.” “So Maude is playing fho shy, demure young thing now?” “Yes, and her grandmother’s trying lo teach her to blush.” It was Jane’s day off, and she was spending it with the maid from the house next door. “My mistress is so curious,” she told the girl. “All mistresses arc.” “llow curious is yours?” “Well,” said Jane, “yesterday I was looking through the keyhole into her room, and she was looking through the koyholo at me.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 June 1932, Page 4
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