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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3771, 19 June 1936, Page 2

Visitor to Gaol: What are you in here for, my man? Prisoner: Exercise, lady. Visitor: Surely they wouldn’t put you here just for exercise? Prisoner: Well, I’m here for a long stretch.

Cohen, small merchant in a small town, visited a friend in a distant city. The friend noticed that Cohen’s suit was much too big for him and asked him where he had bought it. “A tailor in my home town made it for me,” replied Cohen. “But it would fit a man twice your size.” “Well,” Cohen remarked with an air of importance, “I’m a much bigger man in my own town.”

“Oh, dear! oh,’ dear!” moaned the wife. “I wish I’d taken mother’s advice and never married you.” The husband swung round quickly, and at last found voice:— “Did your mother try to atop you from marrying me?” he demanded. The wife nodded violently. A look of deep remorse crossed the man’s face. “Heavens!” he cried. “How I wronged that woman!"