“Darling, would you love me if I had only one eye?” “Why, no dear. What a thing' to say!” “Very well, then, let me carry that umbrella.” “You were absent from school yesterday and wrote this note of excuse yourself? “Yes, I am my father’s secretary.” The cheapjack had been holding forth on the wonderful properties of the antifat preparation he was hawking. “But are you sure it’s all you say it is?” demanded a sceptic from the cnowd. “Am I sure, madam?” retorted the ether. “Why, you can take it from me it was this very preparation that made the Tower of Pisa lean!”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4194, 9 June 1939, Page 3
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