ON TIP - TOE * Ah ambitious young man was being instructed, at -his own request, by a professor of elocution in the art of public speaking. The professor knew that his vanity far exceeded his ability, so he gave him one last piece of advice. "When you have finished your lecture, bow gracefully, and leave the platform on tip-toe.' -"Why on tip-toe?" queried the would-be orator. ; "So as not to wake the audience," was the quiet reply. •• :,■■:<■ * * * WHICH ONE ? Priscilla (on the telephone): "Hullo! Prjscilla speaking. Who is that?" Voice1: "Bertie, sweetheart." "Who? I can't understand you." "Bertie-—B for Bertie, E for Edgar, R for Robert, T for Thomas, I for: Isaac, arid E for Edward." "But, dearest, which of the six are 'you? 7' , .±LIM
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Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 13, 23 September 1927, Page 6
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