The enthusiastic teetotaller never miss, ed an opportunity of pointing a moral. He met Geordie, the enampion toper of the village, who, in his sober moments, was a dog fancier. "Did you ever know, Geordie, that giving a pup wliieky stopped its growth?" "Aye," replied Geordio, "Aa ve tried it." "Oh, did you ? And what happened?" "Pup deed." "Ah, ha!" cried the T.T. "Wasn't that a good lesson to you?" "It was," said Geordie grimly, "it larnt mo nivvor to waste good whisky on ma dogs agyen!" A physician boarded a mwded crosstown car. A woman was standing, and a big German seated sprawling ovor twico the apace necessary. Indignantly the doctor said to him: "See here! Why don't you movo n little so that this tired woman may havo a seat?" For a moment tho German looked dazed. Then a ,broad smilo spread over his countenance as he answered: "Say, dot's a joke on you, all right! Dot's my wife!"
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 4
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