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Customer: These apples taste a bit lishy. Greengrocer: Quite right they re crab apples. "I'm pleased to say that my little boy easily won the egg-and-spoon race. Nobody came near him-«-thanks to your imported new-laids." m. ■ m « Jn?.t as a boy was taking a seal, nt the cinema in the afternoon, a man asked: "Why aren't you at school".'" "Oil. .it's ali right: I've gut the measles,"'' he replied. r* if* "What would you do if you were In my shoes?" "I\l shine' them." "What was your sister so angry about?" '■Why, she sent me to tlie village to get some cold cream, and I got ice cream, which was the coldest tlu'\" had."
m m « • "What is cowhide chiefly used for?" asked the school inspector. A boy raised his hand. "I know, sir," he said, brightly. "Tell the class," said the inspector. "To keep the cow together, sir." m m • « "Sure I'll come with you if you wait till I change these traffic cop shoes of mine." "Traffic cop shoes? Why do you call them that?" "Because everything is all right while I keep going, but if I park anywhere'too long, they pinch me."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 6
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197JOKE CORNER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 6
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