TRY TO SMILE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 11, 18 March 1893, Page 264

TRY TO SMILE.

The Reason Why.—Lady Customer (looking over a lor of pillows): ‘ Why weren’t these marked down?’ Clerk (innocently) : ‘ Because, ma’am, they are feathers.’ The Proper Question.—So you have a new servant girl,’said one housewife to another. ‘Yes.’ ‘How does she like you?’ . BEATS THE REBEL YELL. What is that, wild unearthly sound That seems as 'twere creation's knell I It is the college boys. They’ve found A new and most heartrending yell. Plurally a Parent.—Mrs O’Toole: ‘ Good marnin’to ye, Mister O’Hooligan, an' jye be wid ye, for it’s a father I hear ye are.’ Mr Hooligan : ‘ Faix, but the harruf hasn’t been tould ye. Missus O’Toole, an’ it’s more than wan father I am whin it’s thriplets. bedad.’ A Wise Young Man.—Mudge : ‘ You don’t find me wasting my time trying to get even with my enemies.’ Yabsley : ‘ No, indeed. You are too busy trying to get ahead of your friends.’ SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR. I said. ‘ Hello!’ and so did she. Although her name I ne’er have known. Yet thus it is she speaks to me, The girl who runs the telephone. Not Satisfied.—Gentleman : ‘ Yes, Brown, you’ve done your work excellently. I’ve nothing but praise for you.’ Colonial Workman : ‘ The dickens you have ! I wants a little money, anyway.’ Just So. —Business Man : ‘You remember that “ad.” I had in your paper and cook out two months ago ? Well, I want to have it put back again.’ Editor : ‘ Why I thought you said that no one noticed it while it was in." Business Man (humbly): ‘ They didn’t seem to until I took it out.’