THE ONLY THING HE COULD DO.
One day a gentleman called at the j office of a certain newspaper, and j said to the editor :- "Sir, it is announced in your paper that I am dead." "Well," replied the editor, '"if it is in our paper, it is correct." "It is not correct, for here I am ' alive," rejoined the other. 1 "Well it. cannot be helped," said i the editor. * i "But I expect you to contradict it," said the injured man.. 1 "No, I cannot do that," said the t editor,' "as we never contradict anything that .happens in our paper, I - will do the only thing T can do. ..Tomorrow I will put you in the list of f births.'* £ "That's a fine-looking old gentle- E man! Bleater's father, isn't it ?" asked a collegian of a friend. "Yes," was the answer, "but he is I a champion at breaking his word I" 1 '"You don't say so ?" .' b "Yes-he stutters!" Elderly Lady: "Doctor,-I am i troubled with a hallucination that I ; am being followed by a man. What ' sort o| cure mM yau suggest'?"i i
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North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)
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188THE ONLY THING HE COULD DO. North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)
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