Schoolmaster: "What arc' the product* of tho West Indie*?" Hoy: "Dunno, Bir." Schoolmaster: "Cmjn, 1 , eorno! Where do you k<* tho.«»K»iri you uho?" Boy: "We borrow It from' next door. 8ir!" In tho thinl-riii.xs compartment ilto i cnnvontnllun mrncil on lh<- Important, subject of economy. Various vjhivi wore expro«Bot). Then a unmll man m ono corner siild, Hlouiy: "A fri<>ud of mme — leastwise. '«•'« more of an acquaintance like- > ain't :*pent a 'n'penny m five yt-nrf." "Hoi." Wot are you «ivln" us?" and similar irtn.ukH Kre< ted (hla iiIaUUKMU. "K-wi: 11 jiiUl tho »mall ono, brtotly, :u< he fit I\h pipe. "LJut VII bo out of k:i/.>l nv\t w«?<;l»." ProUnbly never tn th<: history of Urn world ban It hnpporuul th.it a urvad part of a nation h«* Improved H»« p<»y'| alcul Htnndnrd ho rupldly <^i>-k th^i "Nation"). In whole batJallon.H <4 i..m. Cftuhlro recruit* tho unlfurnt^ that \v<i<» t«aucd on cnllfttincnt hnvr- »>»:i>n exchatiffod Binco for l(trcrr>r hlx<-h. .hkl mo p«opl« of tho district wh<»r<- tin- w-w nrmipH have boon l»i!!<-tod h.'tv<- »«•- marked the extraordinary chiuu:-- ih.u hxUJ COnuj OV<?r thCS*' noldt<-r:t v. ■'.:-, v fo^r monUui of opon air and eood Uxxl.
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NZ Truth, Issue 605, 20 January 1917, Page 5
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