SMILE AWHILE
"Billy, where is the penny change from the shopping?" "In —in my pocket,■mummy.-" ; "Well, let me have it, please." "But —er—'•er —it's a top now^ mummy." ■ Cabin Boy: "Captain, is a thing lost when you know where it is?" • Captain: "No, you. ass!" Cabin Boy: "That's all right, then. I've dropped your presentation gold watch: into the sea. " '"■. Aunt, testing her,, nephew's knowledge of history.' "Now, Jack, what was the date of William the Conqueror's great battle?" Jack; who had been learning how to. use the telephone. .'' One, 0. double six, Hastings."; . ( One evening a young mother heard a great deal of noise coming from the dining-room, -where her three small children, ranging . from four to nine year 3. f age, were evidently having a very happy time. She went to the door and asked what it was all about, and was told that the children were playing radio. She paused for a moment before attempting to quiet the racket, when the youngest little boy gave out an unusually loud shriek, when she turned to the older sister and said, "Yes, but why is Junior screaming?" The girl replied, "Oh, he's. static!"
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 18
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194SMILE AWHILE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 18
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