Let's Laugh Awhile

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)

Let's Laugh Awhile

TTISITOR: " Who is the responsible man in this firm?" ■ Office Boy: "I don't know who the responsible party is, but I am the one •who always gets the blame." Dad: "Well, Tommy, how are you getting on at school?" Tommy: "Oh, fine, dad! I play centre-forward in the football team." Dad: " Yes, but I mean at your lessons 1" ' Tommy: " Oh, I'm right-back in those."

Schoolmaster: "Nanus some important things that exist to-day but were unknown one hundred years ago." Tommy: "You and me, teacher!" Tommy: "Teacher whipped a boy in school this morning for whispering, but he did not do any good " Father: "And why was that?" Tommy: "Why, he made ten times as much noiso crying as ho did whispering." Headmaster (who enters dormitory suddenly and catches one of the boys out of bed): "Well, O'Brien, what are you doing out of bed?" O'Brien: "1 got out to tuck myself in bed, sir." One day a teacher asked Willie wh\ he had been absent. "Well, sir," said Willie, "as I was coming to school 1 saw a steam roller, and a policeman said 'Mind that steam roller, sonny.' So I stayed and minded it all afternoon!" A little girl, when her father's table was honoured with an esteemed guest, began talking very earnestly at the first pause,of the conversation. Her father checked her very sharply, saying "Why is it that you talk so much? You talk more than any of us!" " 'Tause I've dot somcthin' to say," was the innocent reply of the little one.