Old Farmer: “Don’t talk to me about crop failures! Why, wlien I was working over in Skunk County nigh forty years ago the oats were so low that sparrows had to got down on their knees to reach them.” Boy; “Please, sir, will you light my cigarette for me?” Gentleman: “ What I Light a cigarette for a little boy like you?’* Boy: “ Sorry, sir; but my mother won't let me play with matches.” Parson (in whisper to mother whose baby he, is about to christen); “How do you spell her name—Anna or Hanna?” Mother; ■' 1 don’t know, sir. I ain't »» KholaTt neither 1" ..... !
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Evening Star, Issue 20049, 14 December 1928, Page 9
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103Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 20049, 14 December 1928, Page 9
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