Not Understood.

Otago Witness, Issue 2850, 28 October 1908, Page 91

Not Understood.

"How will you want your hair out, eir?' said the talkative hairdresser to the man m the chair.

"Minus conversational prolixity," replied the patient. "How's that, sir?"

"With abbreviated or totally elimin&tcd narrations."

"I — ear — don't quite catch your meaning, sir." "With quiescent mandibulars." "Which!" "Without effervescent verbosity." ''Sir?" "Let diminutive colloquy be conspicuous by its absence." , ! The hairdresser scratched his heaid thoughtfully for a second and then went over to the proprietor of the chop wiife the whispered remark: — "I don't know whether that gentleman' in my chair is mad or a foreigner, bui I can't find out what he wants." The proprietor went to the waiting customer and said, politely: \ "My man. doesn't seem to understand you, sir. How would you Lib© your hair cut?" "In silence." Tho proprietor gave a withering look at his jouTrieyman,^while the latter began work and felt so utterly crushed that he never oven asked his patient if he'd buy a bottle of hair restorer. ■*