Spelling at Breakfast.
Mr Topnoody had been to a minstrel show over night, and the funny conundrums and jokes he heard set hin? thinking. So at breakfast he began, on Mrs Topnoody. She was fretful, and not very much in the humour for pleasantry, "but Topnoody slashed away. "I say, Mrs Topnoody, can you spell money with four letters?'
" No, I can't," she said.
" Ha, ha ! That's good. A woman never can get at this eort of thing in the same clear-headed way a man can. Weil, the way to spell it is c-a-s-h. Isn't that money?" Mrs T. failed to smile, and Topnoody started out with another.
"Wait a minute," she interrupted. "I've got one. Let's see if you can guese it. Spell xopnocdy with five letters." Topnoody puckered hia browe awhile, and gave it up "Ha, ha I* laughed Mrs T. "That's good. A man can never get at this sort of thing in the same clear-headed way a woman can. Well, the way to spell it is I-d-i-o-t. Isn't that Topnoody?" But Topnoody never smiled, and the breakfast was finished in silenoe, except for an occasional chuckle from Mrs Topnoody's end of the table.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2734, 8 August 1906, Page 78
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