ENERGETIC OLD MAN. Insurance doctor (examining applicant for life assurance): How old was your father when he died? Applicant (determined to pass examination) : 105. Insurance doctor: What was the cause of his death? Applicant: The rope snapped while he was mountaineering! ANCIENT AND MODERN. “Now, Ipok here, Algernon,” said a parent to his son sternly, “when I wag your a.ge I was head of the class.” “Ah,” responded the lad, “perhaps teachers were easier to fool then than they are now!”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4220, 6 December 1939, Page 5
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81Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4220, 6 December 1939, Page 5
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