HUMOUR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 14

HUMOUR

* tfiro boya were teaching a friend to «ld# « bicycle. After helping him on to $h« saddle, they started him off downhOl. As he did nofc return they went in search of him, and meeting an old lady asked her if ahe had seen a boy on & bicycle. "Ko/* was th© xeply, "I've seen no ono except a boy sitting in & ditch mending umbrellas.

The second hammered on the resined boards. "Hit 'im, hit 'iml" he vainly entreated his principal, but the heavywedght aspirant, hopelessly outclassed, feiled to comply. He recoiled dazedly from a vicious attack, and ebitched despairingly at the xing post. "Not with that, you fool," shouted Mf second; "you '11 be disquaHfied."

A tradesman was taken 311 one night, and saddenly died. His secretary found oa his desk a letter which the dead mai had wxitten the day before, but not sealed. The secretary sealed and sent the letter, having added the following jpostscript: — *' After writing ihe abpve, I sudden ly passed away."

A eertain vicar had two curates; one, a eomparatively elderly man, was a fine preacher, much better than the vicar. The other was a young and. handsome fellow fresh from college and very popular with the ladies. They were both too popular, anyway, for ihe vicar's liking, so he gave them the saek. On their last Sunday at church the older curate preached a farewell sermon at the evening service and took for his text, " Abide ye here with the ass while I and the lad will go up yonder and worship."

Nothing Serious A man -with an outsize sense of aumour caused a disturbance by rising from Ms seat in a crowded theatre and asMng, "Is there a doctor in the house?" There was an nwkward silence, and no one replied, so a minute later he rose again and asked, "Is .there a doctor in ihe house?" A man stood np in a nearby stall and replied, *'X am a doctor, 2 1 there anything wr ong?" The humorons one conntered, geninlly, "Whai do you tliink oi Ihe shov.