INTERNATIONAL HUMOUR
“ Isn’t the sea lovely, sir ? ” “ Rubbish. Take the water away, and what remains? Nothing! ” —Nagels Lustige Welt, Berlin.
“ But, sir, what makes you think I won’t be able to support your daughter?” “ The trouble I’ve had in doing it mvself.” —N.Z. Artists’ Annual, Wellington.
“ Your wife has coughed all night. Why didn’t you send for me before?” “ Until to-night it was not so bad if I put cotton wool in my ears.” —Lustige Kolner Zeitung, Cologne.
Joan: “My father had a quarter-page in the paper when he was made mayor.” Pamela: “ That’s nothing I My mother had a full page when she got her divorce.” —Bulletin, Sydney.
“ But if jou hated me so much why did you marry me?” , “ Oh, a fortune-teller told me my second marriage would be happy, so I didn’t bother much about the first.” -—Aussie, Sydney.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 10
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142INTERNATIONAL HUMOUR Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 10
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