HE KNEW THAT MUCH.
Farmer Hayseed and Chips, the local carpenter, had decided to take a trip to the zoo together. But before they had been there long Hayseed was wishing he had chosen other company. Chips knew altogther too much, and each new enclosure was the signal for a long lecture on the nature and habits of the animals it contained. Hayseed, good-tempered fellow, suffered in silence for a long time, but at last he could bear no more. They stopped before a large cage of monkeys. Chips pointed solemnly. “Do you know what these are?” he asked. Hayseed considered. “I can’t rightly be sure,” he replied, “but judging from the sawdust on the floor, I think they must be carpenters!”
“So Helen is playing the shy, demure young thing now?” “Yes, and her grandmother’s trying to teach her to blush-”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4187, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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142HE KNEW THAT MUCH. Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4187, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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