HUMOUR
Father (boastingly): Yes, my boy is very anxious to get to the top of the tree.
Neighbour: Mine is just the same if there is a good match on.
Guest: Look here, didn’t I ask you yesterday to leave me some hot water outside the door for this morning, and not cold water?
Maid: Yes, sir, you did—and I left it there overnight so as to make sure.
Two lady members of the tennis club, awaiting their turn for a set, were discussing the players on the court.
Said Ann: Have you noticed that Jim laughs every time he makes a bad stroke?
“Yes,” answered Mabel, “and have you noticed that he is always laughing?”
Two road-menders were looking for a gas escape.
One of them was wielding his pick rather vigorously, when the other intervened.
“Be careful wot yer doin’, Bill,” he said, “or yer might find yerself afore the beak.”
“The beak! Wot for?” was the question.
“Well, Joe ’lggins struck a gas-main t’other week an’ blew up a shop. Blow me if they didn't fine ’im for shop-liftin’.”
New Maid: May my sweetheart visit me on Sunday afternoons? Mistress: Who is your sweetheart? New Maid: I don’t know yet—l am a stranger here.
“Of course, you went up the Nile during your trip?” they asked the man who was boasting about his
travels. “Rather. What a view there is from the summit, isn’t there?”
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Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3705, 10 January 1936, Page 5
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238HUMOUR Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3705, 10 January 1936, Page 5
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