A Pleasant Evening.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 9

A Pleasant Evening.

It was a .dark night at Aldershot, and in the gloom could be heard the sound of an approaching horse. "Halt! Who goes there?” barked the picket. ‘‘■Regimental commander.” '’‘Dismount, sir, and advance to be recognised. ” The colonel dismounted and came over to the picket, who presented arms with a snap, ‘‘Proceed, sir!”' he skid. As he laboriously got back on his

horse, the colonel asked: ‘‘By the way, who posted you here?” ‘‘Oh, nobody, sir,” replied the picket. ‘‘l'm just practising.” When Junior Takes His Pen in His Hand. People go about Venice in Gorgonzolas.

A polygon is a man who has many wives. A brunette is a young bear. Ambiguity means having two wives living at the same time. Doctors say that fatal diseases are

the worst. A figure of speech is a way of talking or writing by which you say what you don’t mean and yet mean what you say. A circle is a line which meets the other end without ending. If * * # Blonde Waitress: ‘‘l have stewed kidneys, boiled tongue, Died’ liver and pig’s feet.” Hard Executive: ‘‘Don’t tel! me your troubles, sister. Give me a chicken pie.”