"Was it your eraying for drink that ■brought you here?" asked' t>he welfare worker, during a visit to a prison. The man looked sorrowfully at Inr. "Do" I look," said he, "the sort of chap that would mistake this kind of place for a pub?" TJb.e young man was boasting. He was, according to himself, a super-sales-man. ~ ' "How, much do you think I made last year?" he asked.. "About 50 per cent," replied the; bored one. " "Fifty per cent of what?" "Whatever you say." ' Liner Passenger: What's the matter? ' ■ : ' _-■ : ■ Steward: The captain is sea sick, Passenger: Nonsense! .__ Steward: Yes, one .of the flappep passengers has been teaching him the Charleston. - v • ....■-
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 32, 16 January 1930, Page 11
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111Untitled Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 32, 16 January 1930, Page 11
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