WIT AND HUMOUR

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3807, 11 September 1936, Page 3

WIT AND HUMOUR

EYE FOR AN EYE. Four high-spirited and humour-ously-minded young Englishmen out East had a Chinese servant upon whom they conceived the idea of playing all sorts of practical jokes. One night they nailed his shoes to the floor and poured glue in them; but next morning he brought their coffee in as usual, without word. Next day they put sand in his bed, and, as that produced no reaction, the day after that they removed the mattress from his bed in the timehonoured fashion, and spread the coverlet evenly over the bed frame. Still the child of the Sun entered their room, coffee-laden, and wished them a bland good-morning. So they decided to play no more tricks on such a good fellow, and told him so with a smile on each of their faces. “ No more nailee shoes to floor ? ” asked the servant. “No more nailee shoes,” said they. “No more sand in bed?” “No more.”

“No more bed apple-pie, me fa down?” “Never again!” came the choru “Velly well, no more putee mu in coffee.” SUPERSTITION. “Can’t your Lordship change th cate of the execution from Friday t some other day?” pleaded the pr soner just sentenced to death fo murder. “Wlhy do you wish it changed? asked the judge kindly. “Because, my Lord, Friday is m unlucky day. DEVIL AND THE DEEP. A burglar’s wife was being crosi examined. “Madam, you are the wife of th prisoner ? ” “Yes.” “You knew he was a burglar whe you married him?” “Yes.” “May I ask how you came to marr such an individual?” “You may,” snapped the witnes “I was getting old, and had to choos between a burglar and a lawyer.”