WIT AND HUMOUR

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3771, 19 June 1936, Page 3

WIT AND HUMOUR

“ SHOT ONE.” A 1 small boy, leading a donkey, passed by an army camp. A couple of soldiers wanted to have some fun with the lad. “What are you holding on to your brother so tight for, sonny?” said one of them. “So he won’t join the army,” the youngster replied. RHEUMATOID VARIATIONS The new member of the Council fplt very proud of himself, and nodded anticably at any passer-by whom he thought he' had seen before. “Excuse me, sir,” responded one man to whom he had given a particularly affable bow, “but I think I saw your likeness in the papers recently.” “Er—yes, my photograph has been rather prominent lately,” gushed the mew member.

“L thought I could tell your face again,” continued the other, “And do you know I’ve tried that very same medicine for my rheumatism and it hasn’t cured me.” DAMAGED IN TRANSIT The telephone rang in the minis* ter’s study. “This is the stationmaster,” said a voice. "There’s a case arrived for you from Glasgow, sir, and ” “Yes, yes,” interposed the minister. “Just a few hymn-books I ordered.” “Well, you’d better send down for ’em at once. One of them’s leaking.” PROVIDENCE AND THE LAW. “May I be struck dead if I did it,” cried a Cockney, when the jury had convicted him. There was a pause; and then the judge in measured tones said, “Prisoner at the bar. Providence not haw ing seen -fit to interpose in your case, it is my duty to impose the sentence of the law. Five years’ penal servitude.”