BETWEEN WHILES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 7

BETWEEN WHILES

WHICH P Policeman: When I saw the defendant 7 she was entering a saloon. Magistrate: Bar or car CALL UP RESERVES. “Phyllis told me she’d only been kissed twice.” “ Quite true: once by the Army and once by the Navy.” THE OLD TROUBLE. “ How’s your car running.” “ Not so good. I can’t keep it throttled down.” “ How’s your wife? ” “Oh, she’s about the same.” A PAINFUL THOUGHT. “ With a single stroke of the brush,” said the school teacher taking his class round the National Gallery, “ Joshua Reynolds could change a smiling face to a frowning one.” “So can my mother,” said a small boy. ENCOURAGING. A Dublin man who has just celebrated his hundredth birthday says he has been a teetotaller all his life. Which goes to prove that total abstinence, after all, isn’t fatal. SLOW MOTION. •‘What’s.the delay, guard?” asked the irate passenger, as the train pulled *up in a stretch between two lonely fields. “ Nothing much, sir,” said the guard. “ A cow has strayed on to the line. We’ll be moving again in a minute.” A mile or so further on the train came to another standstill. Again the same passenger’s head protruded from the carriage window. “ What’s wrong this time?” he roared. “It’s quite all right, sir,” the guard reassured him. “There ain’t nothing much wrong. But we’ve just caught that cow up again.”