THE CHESTNUT TREE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2449, 7 March 1931, Page 7

THE CHESTNUT TREE

He Knew. A small boy had just been vaccinated, and the doctor prepared to tie the customary red tape round the sore arm, when the youngster said: “Put it on the other arm, please, doctor.” “Why, no,” said the doctor. “I want to put the tape on your sore arm so the boys at school won’t hit you on it.” “Then put it on the other arm, please. You don’t know the fellows at our school.”

Exposure. A very mean man went into a glassware shop in search of a present for a friend. After spending some time looking at different articles and finding them all too expensive, he at last saw a vase which was broken in several pieces. He inquired the price, and, finding it was practically nothing, decided to send it to his friend, hoping he would think it had been broken in the post. Accordingly, lie asked the assistant ,to pack and dispatch it. A few days later he received the

following reply from his friend: — "'Thanks for the vase. So thoughtful of you to wrap up each piece separately. ’ ’ The Long Trail. Once upon a time a man started out bright and early to sell a funny story. •Later that night he plodded wearily home. He had visited 12 newspaper offices and 12 magazine offices, and they had all declined to buy his joke. "There’s such a thing,” he said sadly, "as carrying a joke too far.”