CONTRIBUTION FROM STARS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 10

CONTRIBUTION FROM STARS.

WENT ONE BETTER. Jimmy: "My brother is so strong that he tore up a. pack of cards.” Tommy: “That's nothing; my brother is so strong that he rushed out of doors this morning and tore, up the street..” SHE KNEW. Visitor: “So you are four, dear, and when will you be five?” Dora: “When Use finished being four, I ’spose.” Stella.

THE MEANING. One day a school master asked his class the meaning of nothing. A boy put up his hand and said: “Please sir, it means what you gave me for minding your horse 3'esterdav.” Valina Richards. RIDDLES. When was the grocer surprised? When he saw the biscuit-box. Edwin Spicer. Why need a person in the desert never die of hunger?—Because of the sand which (sandwiches) there. What sort of apes would make the best wine?—Grey-apes (grapes). W. Walton. What happened to the man who swallowed a teaspoon?—He could not stir. What sort of lions are allowed in English meadows?—Dandelions. Alma Moor. INHERITED. . Wee John wore his dad's clothes, which his mother cut down for him as best she could. As he was getting into a waistcoat which had been cut down from an overcoat he began to growl and grumble. “What’s the matter now?” asked his dad. “Why,” said wee Jock, “this here pocket ain’t got any bottom to it.’ ’ “It’s no pocket/' said his dad; “that’s a buttonhole.”