Our Funny Page

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 19, 4 November 1908, Page 72

Our Funny Page

WHEW! Friend.—Why did you discharge your errand boy’ Butcher. —Customers complained' that Die was too slow said ho took so long that when they ordered veal it arrived M beef!

PER I IK “Isn't .there damger," said the timid man, “of dropping things from an airship on the people below?” ’ “That isn’t the worst,” answered the candid inventor. “You’re lucky if the whole airship doesn’t fall on you.”

MODEST BRIDGET. Mistress: ‘'Bridget, it always seems to me that the crankiest mistresses get the best cooks.” Cook: “Ah, go on wid yer blarney!”

AN OVERSIGHT. The Youngster: “There’s no doubt about it. I was cut out for an orator.’* The old man: “Pity you were neveß made up.”

Mttpwrm'keil Mariner: “A Hail! A nail at last!” fair One in Distress (weakly)“What are they advertising!"

Mrs. Sub-hurst: Why, Mary, what are.you putting the fly-paper outside th« house for Mary, the latest: Sure, an’ ain’t there more flies outsoide than insoide?

Mrs. Knicker.—Henry. why did you leave your shoes on the stairs last nightf Knicker (dazed, but inspired).—English cushtom, tn'dear; left ’em tube blacked.