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Northland Age, Volume 6, Issue 30, 16 April 1937, Page 3

What’s The Use A man telephoned a hardware store the other day to order a scythe. “Size ?” asked the assistant who took the telephone call. “Not size,” the man replied, “Scythe.” “Yes, yes, I can hear you,” the salesman said. “What size ?” “No, no, no,” the customer yelled. “Not size, but scythe—SCYTHE. You know what a scythe is, don’t you ? A grass cutter.” The next day a delivery man appeared at the customer’s house with a glass cutter.

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