Puss! Puss!
The doctor .was interviewing the'last. patient in the surgery when a woman rushed in crying: "Doctorl ..Doctor! Come quickly. My husband has swallowed a mouse! " "Get back to him," said the doctor,"and try waving a. piece ' of cheesc about in front of his mouth. I'll follow you as soon as possible." Five minutes later the doclor reachcd Ihe house. A man was lying on a settcc With his mouth wide* open, while a bysterical woman was waving a kipper about -close to his face. "You foolish woman, " he cried. 'CI told you cheese. " "1 know that," she shrillcd, "but I've got to get thc cat out first!" . 5> S> $> ■ All at Sea. A special preacher, about to ascerid the pulpit in a country church, was asked if hc wouid like any particular liymu to be sung in keej)ing witli his sermon. "No, no," he replied. "As a ma'tter of fact, I seldom know what I'm going to say until I arrive in the pulpuit. " "Oh, well, in that case," said tho vicar, "we had better have one the hymns "for those at sea»' "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 13
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