ENGLISH AS SPOKEN. The Boston man, careful of his and other folk’s grammar, asked the clerk for a man’s comb. “Do you want a narrow man’s comb?” the clerk asked. “No,” said the man, “I want a comb for a stout man with rubber teeth.”—’ Sherbrooke Record.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4422, 7 May 1941, Page 7
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