SMILE AWHILE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 8

SMILE AWHILE

A QUIET LITTLE PLACE. .- Tiro commercial travellers hid Just arrired: In t very sleepy country-town. "Hullo I" exclaimed one of them.' "Why la that Sag at half-mast?" "Must be because the town's dead," replied the other. ■, . WANTED. A RIDE I Dick (at the seaside): Muttmy, may I have) threepence to give to a poor little boy, please? Mother: Certainly, dear. Where In the little) boy? Dick: Er—over there, minding the donkeys I "MISS 1931" (IS) -1 City. c JUST HARK. Simple Sain looked very anuojed- at ht marched Into .1 sccond-hniid dealtr's, shop. "Just look at this old thing'you fold me!" he bCKan. "I want my money back I" "Why, what's wrong? That's a ■perfectly good flute I" said the dealer. , "Oil. is it?" cried Sam. "Whsl, It's full of holes I" "BUtTY" (10). Tetone. '. ■ NO DIFFERENCE. •* " Father: My son, I won't hare you constantly at the bottom of the class as you arc Aged Ten (bored): Can't see it makes much difference myself, Dad. They teach the etao tt both enOs. , "BOBBOLD.K" <14). Petone. . ■ TOO CLEVER. Teacher: Now, besides the cow, what else are there that bare horns and are dangeroui to approach? 1 ,Pupil: Flcase, teacher, rioter-cars! » "LITTLE GLADNESS" (11), ' Sarorl, NOT A MODERN MUMMY. \ Little Joan was paying her first visit to the British - Museum. In the Egyptian Room ike pointed to a figure and asked what it was. "That is someone's mummy," she \ras told. "Oh," she murmured, "I'm glad my mummy'i not like that." ECONOMY. Traveller: How much do you charge for carrying baggage? ,- -T • Porter: SUpence for the first, and threepence each for all others. • Traveller: Good.; I'll carry the first and ye* take this. , ■ A BRAIN WAVE. , One springtime, following two or three dry summers, a fanner waa seen to be planting onions and potatoes in alternate rows.1 ' 1 "Why are you doing, that?" asked Mill neighbour. ' .. < "I'm-not being caught by the -drought Oil*, year,".he replied, "for the onions / can ~au)<<> the potatoes' eyes-water and-10 irrlgat* theland." , ;. ', J • ;;'•