The End of the Trouble.
Here is a Chinese aneedate, from the “ Hsiao-Lin-Chi ” or
“ Laughing Book,” that would keep its humour, no matter under what language it were translated. It loses none of its point certainly, when turned into English. • A man who had been convicted of theft Aias put into the town stocks. A passer-by, observing his sad state, stopped and spoke to the man. “ What did you do ? ” asked the passer-by. “Oh, nothing. I just found an old piece of rope on the road, and picked it up.” “ And is it possible they have punished you in this way for sirapiy picking up an old piece of rope ? ”
“Yes—only it seems there was a cow at the end of the rope.”
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 May 1915, Page 3
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123The End of the Trouble. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 May 1915, Page 3
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