YORKSHIRE HUMOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17740, 29 March 1932, Page 10

YORKSHIRE HUMOR

LORD SNOWDEN MERRY TOAST FOR ALL WHO HAD PAID INCOME TAX! LONDON, Feb. 6. Viscount Snowden, at the “Yorkshire Night” dinner at the London Press blub last night, gave the lie direct to his socalled "iron” spirit by revealing himself as the merriest of all the speakers, although the Earl of Harewood ran him a good second. ~ ~ . After inviting “all who had paid their income tax” to take wine with him, Lord Snowden told Yorkshire stories galore, while his audience shouted (or more. . . . | A southern schoolmistress, iic related, l who went to Yorkshire did not like their way of saying “putten” instead of “put,'' but she became muddled, and said, “Tom has putten putten where he should have putten put.” Then there was the YorkshSreman with his family on the train but without any tickets. However, lie just went into the next compartment, said “Tickets please”—and got plenty ! Lord Snowden said he knew a story of Lord Harewood’s father that was i “good enough to be true.” A tenant who was a “character” came to see the Harewoods in London, and was invited tin where some guests wore having dinner. J ' , THOSE LITTLE PIGS | He described.,what the animals on the estate were doing, and was asked about one little pig. “Oh,” said the old man, “he just sits about and watches the other little pigs having a meal same as I’m doing now.” (Laughter.) Lord Snowden said he did not quite know where Sheffield “stood” in Yorkshire, or which part claimed it, but lie knew a story of a Sheffield man whose doctor told him he must give up whisky or go blind. The man thought for a minute and then said : “Well, I’ve seen all there is to see ... ." Another of Lord Snowden’s stories, which he said was an excellent specimen of Yorkshire wit, concerned a man whose pit pony died. When asked how it died the man said to the manager: “I happened to he looking at my pay sheet and I saw the pony looking over my shoulder . . . .” A Yorkshireman “cheering up” a dying friend remarked as he went out. “7>h, but this will he an awkward staircase to get! a coffin down.”