Dictor: Well, my little man, bo you're feeling poorly, are you P Put out your tongue, please P Small Patient: Oh! please, Doctor, I'd rather not. I got sent to bed for putting it out at nurse the other day, and I promised I'd never do it again. Slender Individual: Did I understand you to say, sir, that you get out at the next station P Stoat Party: Yes, I did, sir—and what of it? Slender Individual (with great relief) : Ah-h-h! the train'il be getting on faster after that! Elsie: When is my birthday, mother P Her Mother: On the 31st of thia month, dear. Elsie: O, mother! Supposing this month had bad only 30 days, where would I have been ? 'Ello, Gus, I 'aint see yer for years. 'Ow's things P' ' H'orlrite, I'm on th' Stock Exchange, now.' ' On the Stock Exchange !' ' Yus: hon the roof mending tiles !'
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 2
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149Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 2
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