WIT and HUMOUR.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 4, 19 June 1930, Page 12

WIT and HUMOUR.

THE HONOUE. Sonny had just returned from his ;G/j?t a.tt©nclan/G£ at Suuday school. He boc-'med proudly aa -lie announced that the minister had spoken to him. "Oh," said ihis father, "and what <li«l he say to you?" ___' 'He told me to keep quiet," replied Sonny. THE SENTENCE. The proprietor of a small eineona had, just completed the insurance oif ids* ha'j, and as he: signed his natoe he turned to the agent and said: "Now tell me, vot vould I get if my cinema vos burned down to-morrow?" "Oh, I think about 10 years," repiled the man carelessly. DON'T WHAT. Farther'had been in the habit of warning his little regarding her <?ondiiei dimnig the day as he left home each morning. One moimdng he kissed the c-Mld_and said. "Now be a good little girl." With an expectant smile she added, "And don't what?" -■" CERTAINLY NOT. Two ne(\vspaper boys were arguing very heatedly. N " Well. I *ju. a penny short,'' said one. ' ■ You surely don't a-ecuso me o' takiri' yer penny! "said the other. "No," said th«:'first. "I don't say you took it, but there it is—l'm a pennj short and you're eaftin' bullsoye?.'^ . _ . . THE WRONGS OF. WOMEN. •■ She was le'eturimg on fhe wron/gs of poor dorsvn-trodden women. : Finally s-he put ths question:— - "Is there in this hall a single man who has never spoken an unkind woTd to his wife?" At once an old ma>n jumped up. 1 ' Yes, I 'an thait single man, "he said, "and I mean to remain so." ANTICIPATION. Bobby Brown wanted a pony—and he had seen ttb.e pony in a near-iby meackxw. "What would happen if I stole that pp-ny?" he asked his father. -"You would get six months in prison, '' -n-as the reply. ' Bobby thought a wiile and then said: "You Wouldn't forget to feed it while I was a-way, would you, fa-therf"