Wit and Homoer

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

Wit and Homoer

FRIGHTENED.

Interviewer: "Aren't you sometimes frightened when you look down at the street below you?" Steeplejack: "Yes. Only yesterday I thought I was going to see a pedestrian run over."

Papa: "I'm Inclined to suspect your fiance's bank account is greatly exaggerated." Daughter: "Oh, no. Arthur says It's only Just a tiny bit overdrawn !"

MISUNDERSTOOD.

They were sitting together in the oonlight.

"And," said the girl bravely, "if poverty comes, wo will face it together."

DIDN'T LOVE HER.

"Ah! dearest," lie, replied, "the mere sight of your lace would scare the. wolf away." Anil ever since he has been wondering why she returned the ring.

- ' She: "What mountain is that over 1 there?" He (shortly): "I don't know." She: "Charles! You don't love . me now. On our honeymoon you , used to know everything."

UNFAIR. Two little boys had been misbehaving themselves in class, and the teacher kept them in, making them write their names five hundred times as an added punishment. On hearing this, one little boy burst into tears. The teacher asked what was the matter. "'Tisn't fair," he cried; "his name is Gee and mine is Montgomery.''

SAME DISTANCE. - , „, An Englishman, who was travelling in Ireland tried to puzzle a native peasant with the following question:— “How far, my man, is it from Mullingar to Michaelmas?” “As far,” was the reply, “as from Whitsuntide to the ace of spades.” HIS MONEY’S WORTH. j “What did Hobson say about my play?” “lie said he certainly felt lie had got his money’s worth.” “Anything else?” “Oh! yes; lie asked me to thank you for the free pass you sent him.”