The scene was in one of our public schools. The principal actors were an infuriated teacher and the booby of his draw;n,r c'ass. “ Now, then.” thundered the teacher to the lUjuse individual, “suppose you were going to draw me, what part of iny body would you’do first?” “Please, sir, I would draw your neck,” innocently replied the boy. -r- A magistrate’s clerk was taking down the evidence of a witness, and aj'.ced what her name was. “Mcddows,” she replied. “How do you spell it, madam?” “Hem. He, D, D, Ho, Double U, Hess.” “Ah! Then there’s no hay in your meadows," remarked tho witty scribe.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 3
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