HOW IT SHOULD BEUSED.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3570, 26 June 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW IT SHOULD BEUSED.

.Two. moulders were once out. of. work, and were at their wits' cuds lo know what to do for a living. ' r At last one of them conceived an idea. They went to the place where they, used to work, and begged some.sand, which,they made up into packets, and sold them n« “a certain destroyer, of beetles.’' -They, had uo difficulty in disusing of them.' - .

An old lady bought .the last packet, aud asked how to rise it. .

One of the. men then said

"iVe’.l.'as vou have bought the last pack-, d I wi.’J tell yoii. You first of all catch fjio’ beetle, tickle it,with a feather.till it-lajlghi rnd thou drop some of the sand down its throat, and choke it." \

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. NEARING Til-E 1-lSlSlE^'., • “How.long has the minister been preaching y\ whispered the. ptnjugcr who'liadrifaiidered into the church and hat ,tlo;rriij/,' “About thirty ( jears,'l hcliere,”,replied the other occupant of the PQW. 1 V' “That being ’the' eahei'* rcjpiuldiT the stranger, "I'll stay. He must be nearly finished.''

Sweet Wife; “0 Harold, the hall clock just fell and narrowly missed mother! Had it struck her she would have been killed.*’

Harold (aloud): .“you don't say so!” (Aside); “I always did cay that clock was

slow

DURGLARS ARE GOOD JUDGED

Mrs Skimps; “This part of'the town i* miserably policed. I can scarcely sleep at night Km fear the burglars will gel at our spoons.”

Mrs Pimpps: “yes; it would be really annoying to come down some morning and find them all broken.”

Arthur: “Lwould marry that girl but for

one thing.”; ’ * Chester; ‘‘A'fraid to pop tlic question?’’ Arthur: to question tire

pop.”

Husband: “Come, sit on my lap, my dear, as you did in our old courting days." Wife: “Well, I declare! I haven’t received such an invitation for an age.’’ Husband-: “And—cr—bring a needle and thread with yon, my love

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