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SMILE AWHILE !

Magistrate (looking at very small prisoner): What is the charge? Six-loot Constable: Attempted Suicide. Magistrate: Indeed? What did he do? Six-loot Constable: He wanted to fight me. Customer: Those egt:s are very small. Shopkeeper: Yes. num. Customer: And they don't seem very fresh. Shopkeeper: Well, it's a good job they're small, isn't it? At the orchestral concert. Mother (to small daughter who l*. tying a knot in the -:orner of her tiny handkerchief): What are you doing that for, darling? Daughter: Oh, munvmie, I do waijii to remember that pretty"tune. The master gave the class a-sentence to punctuate. One boy did it correctly as follows: "In came the soldier, oil his face a fiery look; on his feet his sandajs, on his back his armour, shouting his battle-cry." Tom. the dunce, however, handed in the following: "In came the soldier on his face, a fiery look on his f ee f> 9 sandals on his back, his armour shouting his battle-cry."

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

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SMILE AWHILE ! New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

SMILE AWHILE ! New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)