PASSING MOMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1931, Page 6

PASSING MOMENTS

CONSERVATIVE. Ike: And how is business wit you dis week ? Abe: Colossal—but it vill pick up. “NOT MY FAULT.” “Where did you get those big. leni tier, sympathetic eyes?” I “Ob',” replied the sailor, “they came ! with my face.” EVEN THE SCOT! MaePherson (hoping for free advice): ! Doctor, what should I do for a spraiii- , ed ankle ? Doctor (also Scotch): Limp! QUITE SO! Sunday School Teacher: And when it rained 40 days and 40 nights, what happened then ? Bright Willie: The natives said it was very unusual. PROPER REDUCING. “And how is your husband getting on with his reducing exercises, Mrs Neuqnids?” , “You’d be surprised—that battleship ’e ’ad tattooed on ’is chest is now only a row boat!” | NOT BY BUFFALO! 1 An elderly lady walked into a railroad ticket office at Chicago and asked for a ticket to New York. ' “Do you wish to go bv Buffalo/’' asked the ticket agent. “Certainly not!” she replied. “By train, if you please.” j COINCIDENCES. Talking of coincidence. If was the eleventh of the month. I lived in number eleven, and I hacked the eleventh horse on the card. j Second Sportsman: And your horse won ? | First Sportsman: No, he came In eleventh.

COMING BACK. He was a rough and ready son of Erin, and had but recently obtained a job as a taxi-cab driver. Tile very first day be happened to whizz by a very distinguished-looking individual and the mail yelled: “Hoy. you, do you know that you came within an inch of hitting me?” Pat looked around. and smiling veiled: “That’s all right—Oi’in coming back.” i