SPARKS AND FLASHES
FOR A CHANGE A well-known footballer was locked up for being drunk, and was tried the next morning. The captain of the team remarked to the Magistrate : “I hope you will be lenient with him your Worship, as he plays right outside for our team.” The Magistrate: I am sorry, but he will have to be left inside tor one month. A teacher in an elementary school had given lessons to an infants’ class on the Ten Comandments. In order to test their memories, she asked : “Can any little girl give me a Commandment containing only four words ?” A hand was raised immediately- “ Well ?” said the teacher. “Keep off the grass,” was the unexpected reply. A certain man was undergoing an examination at the hands of an insurance doctor. “You don’t go in for dissipation of any sort, I suppose ?” said the doctor, tapping the other’s chest. “I mean, you don’t lead — er—a fast life ?” The little man looked thoughtful. Then his brow clouded. “I think I ought to tell you, doctor,” he said nervously, that I —er —sometimes chew a little gum.”
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Northland Age, Volume 26, Issue 9, 23 June 1926, Page 6
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186SPARKS AND FLASHES Northland Age, Volume 26, Issue 9, 23 June 1926, Page 6
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