Now Customer (after being lathered by the apprentice): "Your master seems to do tho shaving, where is he?" "He's gone down to the railway station." "Deuce take it, why didn't you say so before lathering me? Supposo he's *one half an hour?" "Then I'll lather you over again!" Two suburban gardeners were swearing vengeance on oat*. "It appears to me,'' one said, "that they seem to pick out your choicest plants to scratch out of tho ground." " There's a big, yellow tomcat," the other said, _" that fetches my plants out, and then site still and actually defies me." " Why don't you hurl a brick at him?" asked the speaker, in sympathetio tones. "That's the worst of It," was tha reply. "I can't. He gets on top of my greenhouse to defy me f
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Otago Witness, Issue 3244, 17 May 1916, Page 69
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