Five Minutes' Fun.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 May 1915, Page 4

Five Minutes' Fun.

/The Traveller: "Dan 1 get a steak and catch the one o'clock train.?" 'Die Waiter: "All depends on your l>eth, sir." "Every man has a hobby of some * kind. What is yours?" "Keeping away from foolish people who ask me that kind of questions. Teacher: "What comes after 'H'P' Small Boy: "I dunno." Teacher: "What have lon each aide of my noseP" Small Boy: "Frecklet." Teacher (in a kindergarten j,hysioV-,?y class): "Harry, can you tel! me the fiifiction of the pores of our bodice?" Jflarry: "They are things we tiso to * catch cold with." "Johnny, I don't believe you've studied your geography." "No, mum: I heard .pa sny the mnp of tho world wa« changing every day, and I thought I'd wait till things got settled. "Waiter," asked the impatient customer, "do you call thig ais oyster etew?" . "Yes sir." "Why, the oyster in this etew isn't big enough to flavour it." "He wasn't put in to flavour it, sir. He is jus' supposed to christen it. ,, Hardup: "There was a time when people new] to my that T had nuire money than brains, but they can't snv that now." . Wife: "Why no *P" . Hardnp: "Because T'vo come down to my Inet copper." Wife: "Well, you've etill got a copper." Stingy Husband: "Look here! Mustard plasters, two eTjiHinjra: three teeth exiractftd, fieven-nml-sixpeiicp. There's nine-and-sixppiice in one week spent in your own private pleasure! Do you think I am made of monevP" ',