NO CHANGE
TJie disgruntled fisherman at the club lifted his voice in loud complaint at the base trickery of his two companions on the fishing trip. “It was agreed," he explained, "before we started that the one who caught the first fisli must stand the party dinner. Now, it’s almost: inconceivable—you’ll hardly believe it—but when wo started fishing, those two fellows deliberately refused to pull in their lines when they had bites, in order to make me pay for the dinner." “Oh, what a mean trick,” one of the listeners assented sympathetically. "How much did the dinner cost you?" "Weller—” said the fisherman, "it wasn’t rjnito as had as that. You see, I didn’t put any bait; on my horde.”
"Sometimes In My Dreams” I see Scenes which waking cease to be, ‘'Sometimes In My Dreams” I know Vanished joys of long ago.
"Sometimes In My Dreams" I hear Silenced voices sweet and clear; When I dream and colds endure I take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
’Pirn Bore: ‘‘l passed by your place yesterday.” The Bored : ‘‘Thanks, awfully!”
“.tml you run cork like niv mother used to?” ‘‘Yes, if you can stand indigestion ns your father used to!”
“What are you in for?” “Seven venrs. I robbed the Swindelia hank. Ami you?” “Five years. X founded the Swindelia bank.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 10
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219Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 10
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