WHILE YOU WAIT

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1930, Page 7

WHILE YOU WAIT

CURIOUS. Old man: The man who marries mv daughter will get a prize. Young man: Alay I see it? SHE CURED HIM. Doctor: Has there been any insanity in your family? Mrs Henpeck: Yes there has. You see it was like this, my husband once thought he was boss, but I soon cured him. EXCUSABLE. “Listen” shouted a big man through the telephone box to a little man inside, “you’ve had that ’phone for 20 minutes and not said a word.” “Sir,” said the man, “I’m talking to my wife.” THE EXPLANATION “AVhat do you mean by loitering near a jeweller’s window, and with a brick in your pocket?” “There now, officer, I’d almost forgot. I promised to go and help a friend drown a cat to-night.” ONE OF HIS REGULAR HABITS. “I thought you told me, sir, that you were a young man of regular habits?” cried old Air Quackenbush, as his new assistant reeled into the hall last night. “So I am,” responded the young man; “so I am. This is one of ’em.” TRUTH AND FICTION. Girl: I maintain that love-making is ' just the same as it always was. Her Sweetheart: How do you know? Girl: I just read about a Greek maiden who sat and listened to a lyre all the evening.”

SORRY HE SPOKE. The speaker at a political meeting was being heckled. At last he could stand it no longer. “Who brayed there?’ he asked sarcastically. “No one,” retorted a voice, “it was only the echo.” TRANSPARENT COFFEE. The new r boarder addressed the landlady from his seat half-way dov'n the table. “You’ve only put one lump of sugar in my coffee, ma’am,” he said. “Oh!’ said the landlady. “And how do you know'?” “Pecause I can see it,” came the plyMOST UNCOMMON. Algy was proudly showing his friend his new car. ‘Well, what do you think of it?” asked Algy. “Hump,” growled his friend, “I should have thought you would have had something more uncommon.” “It’s dashed uncommon,” retorted Algy “It’s paid for.”