Two workmmen were watching tfte operation of an immense piece of machinexyi which shovelled fifty tone of earth in one scoop. One of them said to the other, "Bili, if it weren't flor that blasted shovel, five hundred of ns might be busy with oue spades." ' ' Yes,' ' answered BilJ, "and if it weren't for our spades, a million of us might be busy with teaspoons!" — — Quintus Quiz, in The Christian Century.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 15
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