He Was Tired.
A gentleman in a tramcar, while reading newspaper, discovered a paragraph which struck him as particularly funny. "Here is something good,” said he to his neighbour; and he read the item to him.
A tired look swept over the gentleman’s face, but he never smiled. Presently the reader came across another paragraph that tickled his fancy. “I will try him with this one,” he said. He did so, and a tear actually welled out of his neighbour’s eye and coursed slowly down his cheek. “Heavens, man!” was the exclamation, “what is the matter with you? Have you no sense of humour? What do you do to pass away the time?” Looking mournfully at him, the stranged replied—“l am a proof reader on a comic paper.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIV, 2 April 1904, Page 10
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128He Was Tired. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIV, 2 April 1904, Page 10
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