YOUTHFUL WIT.
An inspector went into a boys’ school the other day, at th a conclusion of his tour of inspection, offered a sixpenny piece to the boy who could make a connundrum to which he could not give the answer. Silence reigned supreme for a time, until finally one bright-looking boy venture 0 upon the following:“Why am I like an old horse?”
The inspector, failing to see why a youghtful, energetic boy should resemble an aged quadruped, gave up in the hope of hearing something funny, whereupon the boy replied triumphantly, "Because I am waiting for the tanner!” And he got it.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1125, 2 November 1911, Page 22
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103YOUTHFUL WIT. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1125, 2 November 1911, Page 22
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