AWKWARD.
Mrs Wilkins was a victim to the borrowing habit —of which her servant. had full cognisance. One day, -when she was entertaining some friends;, she said to the latter : "Mary, you may bring up the plates.” "Yes, mum,” returned the maid; "Mrs Jones’ or Mrs Smith’s, mum ?’’ TRUE, THESE DAYS. After being called down, the new floorwalker said meekly. t “Sorry; but you know I am very new on the job/’ “That may be so,” snapped the superintendent, “but please remember in future that our executive and advertising offices are in the rear of the store, and when a man wants to know where the publicity department is, don’t send him to the ladies’ hosiery counter. THE TRUTH. "Henry,” said the- teacher, "can you tell me what an inebriate is " "Yes, teacher,” replied Henry. "T l . Is an animal without a backbone.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4393, 22 March 1922, Page 3
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143AWKWARD. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4393, 22 March 1922, Page 3
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