HUMOUR --- More or Less
Artistic. First Charlady: You know, dear, what do you call those drawings that; are all scratches? Second Charlady: You mean iteh-i mgs, don’t you? . Be Reasonable. Jones, a rather meek reporter, met the prize-fighter whose light he had written' up the week before. “Hi!” cried Hie prize-fighter threateningly. “What’s the big idea? Here 1 win a big sepp and your paper only gives me two columns about it!” “Well,” said' .Tones, “you really can’t grumble, old chap. Think of all the lights Nelson won, and he only had one column.” No Boasting. The Easter visitor from the • city * was looking' around the Old-World' 1 village in company with one of the’ inhabitants. - j “A lovely place indeed,” he re-1 marked “And I suppose even so! small a hamlet can boast of a football ) team. ’ ’ The villager grimaced. “No, wc can’t,” he said. “We used to boast of one; now we apologise for it.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 15 September 1934, Page 13
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157HUMOUR--- More or Less Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 15 September 1934, Page 13
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