QUITE SIMPLE Painter: Rut. madam, how can I make a portrait that resembles you from these two photographs? One was Lady Client: Oh, I thought you could taken in i9lO and the other recently, take the fare from one and the dress from the other. NATURAL HISTORY During a natural history lesson the teacher asked the class to name an animal peculiar to this country. “The camel.” said one boy. “That’s not a native of New Zealand.” said the teacher. “I know it isn’t.” replied the boy; “that’s why it would be peculiar.”
AN EXCUSE “ How it is that you are always late for school. Tommy?” “ I don’t know. miss. I think I must sleep very slowly.” AT A DISADVANTAGE After several unsuccessful attempts to draw her husband into conversation at the restaurant, the wife discovered the cause of his abstraction to be a beautiful girl dressed in black and seated at a nearby table. “An attractive widow,” observed the wife coolly. ‘ Yes, indeed, a very attractive “ Yes,” sighed the wife. “ I wish I were one.” widow.’ agreed her husband, enthusiastically.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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