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NZ Truth, Issue 87, 16 February 1907, Page 8

Policeman : "Hullo, cabby! When ,are yer.goin' to light up ?" Cabby : "No 'urry ! My 'oss is blind!" Mrs Youngbride : "George seems to , be different somehow since our marriage." Mrs Sinnick : "Time will remedy, that, my dear. He'll soon be indifferent." "But why have you broken off your engagement ?" "Well, I ; simply couldn't .marry a man with a broken nose." "Ah, I wonder how he got his nose broken, poor fellow." "Oh, I struck him accidentally with my brassie when he was teaching me golf." , : Little Jeanie : "My mamma is always saving, 'Why did you do that ?' and 'Why didn't you do this?' and 'Why m the world did forget so-and-so ?'" Tommy: "How awfully strict she must be. What, an awfully bad time you must have !" Little Jeanie : "Oh, it isn't to me she says all that , it's to pa.-" <. A certain mother w-as very much annoyed at the dirty condition of her boy's cap when the children came home from a walk. "How did you come to get your hat so dirty ?" she angrily asked. "A boy pulled it off my head m the street and threw it m the mud." "That's not so, ma; he threw the cap m the mud himseLf," interrupted his little sister. "Well, I'm a boy, ain'it I ?"