The wife wrote from a fashionable hotel: "Dear John, I/enclose the hotel bill."
John responded: "Dear Mary, I enclose cheque to cover the bill, but please don't buy any more hotels at this figure; they are cheating you."
Mother (at party): Will you have some bread and butter, Willie? Willie: Breadand butter! I thought this was a party!
Counsel (exploding): My friend, you are an ass.
Witness (unperturbed): Do you mean sir, that I am your friend because I am an ass, or an ass because I am your friend?
An old Scotsman bought a wireless set, and his friend went round a short time afterwards to inquire how he liked it.
"Well," said Donald, "it's all right to listen to, but them bulbs are nae good to read by."
She: The man I marry must be as brave as a lion, but not forward; handsome as Apollo, but not conceited; wise as Solomon, but meek as a lamb; a man-who is kind to every woman, but only loves me.
He (enthusiastically): By Jove! How lucky we .met.
Sergeant (addressing platoon): Any man*there know anything about music? Recruit: Yes, sergeant. Sergeant: Then you can go and shift the piano into the officers' mess.
"Those fellows are having a battle of wits." "Oh, a sham fight!"
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Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3371, 23 September 1933, Page 8
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