HUMOUR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 18

HUMOUR

Complianentary :♦ The man in the corner of the railway caxriage pulled out a notebook and pencil and began to make a sketch of the man sitting opposite. The "model" dattered by the attention paid him, leaned forwaTd and said: "I pereeive, sir, that you are an artxst." t ' Well, no, ' ' replied the other. ' 'Not exaetly. I make designs for doorknockers."

Cheaper MacDonald was out walking with His fiancee, wheu she suggested that they should go to the pictures, With Scottich caution, he persuaded her. to.go instead to the free Picture Galleiy. Once inside, the young man took Ms future bride by the arm and began to race her round the - room. "What on earth are you doingf',' inquired the girl, breathlessly. "Take a look at yon pictures," was the reply. "Can ye no see how they're 'moying. We 've noe need to pay baw bees to the cinema! " '

At a dinner * speaker spoke for half an hour and" looked like going-on-for another thirty minutes. • ' ' A guest turned to a woman beside him and remarked: "Can nothing be done to shut tMs man up?" "Well," xesponded the woman, cheerfully and frankly, "I've tried for fifteen years and failed to do so."

. Sambo turned up at the polief station. - "CMef, sah, Ah needs protection," he said. ''Ah done got a unanimoss letter tMs mornin' wMch says, 'Nigger, let inah cMckens alone.' " "Why do you want protection?" asked the cMef of police, " Jnst leavs the ehickens • alone, and you '11 bs isll right." • t ■ "Dat's all right boss, but how does Ah know whose cMckens I'se to Ifiavo ftionel'* , .