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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 5

Tramp: “Please, ma’am could ym< spare a copper?" Woman (offering two pence): “Here you are, my man! Bufi don’t think I give you this because I think you need it; I dp it simply because ib pleases me to do so." Tramp: “Wellmadam, if (hat’s ’ow yer feels about it, why don’t yer make it a tanner an’ ’avo the time of yer life.” —“That young doctor doesn’t, seem to b« making money very fast.” “No, it’s a hard struggle at first, I suppose, but h« sticks it well. Sits there waiting fop chance like Patience on a monument. “Well, let’s hope when he gets it it won't! be a case of monumental on his patients.’* The taxi swerved and skidded along} the street, and the old lady was glad whe« she reached her destination. “You fricbtened me,” she said. “It’s the first tima I’ve ever ridden in one of these taxies." “You have my sympathy, ma’am,” said tfo# driver. “It’s the first time I’ve ever driven one.” , • —An old lady visiting the prisoners in a certain prison was chatting pleasantly* with a burglar who had been sentenced tt» serve a long term. She thought she detected signs of refoim in him. “And, now,"’ she said, “have you any plans made for tlie future, on the expiration of your sett • tence?” “Oh, yes, madam,” .he said hopefully, “I’ve got the plans of two banks a post office,” The parson met one of his “flock’,’ fit the village street and stopped to speak t» him. “John, my good man,” he said severely, “your wife tells me that your conduct of late has not been ai all desiiu able. Why don’t you take a lesson frdp» ms? I can go to the village and oomp back again without getting drunk.” “A.y mebbe you can, sir,” rejoined the other* “bat, ye 6eo, I!xivsao~s»opal«."