The Graphic FUNNY LEAF
Willie Bug (to porter): “The next time I take a job as boots I’ll pick out a hotel where they don’t entertain centipedes.”
She: Now. wasn’t it thoughtful of me to go out early and gather those flowers for the breakfast table? -Fine!” (lie kisses her.) “Where’s the coflee?” -Oh! But I can’t think of everything, darling, can 1?”
NATURALLY. When the members of a family quarrel. some very elever things are said which no one present applauds or repeats. EXPERIENCE TEACHER. “Pa,” said little Willie Underthum, “wh.it does a man’s ‘better h ilf’ mein?” “Usually, my son,” replied Mr Undertbum, “she means just what she says.”
Brooklyn Half-back (recovering from knock-out): Say, Doe? The Doctor: Well, son. Brooklyn Half-back :Was — Was the motorman arrested?
“No, mum, I do not despair of marrying. There are as good fish in th’ say as iver wuz eaught!” “Yis, but in your case, ain’t th’ bait gettin a trifle stale?”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11, 17 March 1906, Page 64
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161The Graphic FUNNY LEAF New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11, 17 March 1906, Page 64
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