TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
£n his den the Funny Story Editor sat, his visage all puckered and blue, He was wading through piles of ancient jests that were stale when the world was new ; There were jokes of the plumber that Adam made when he was a gay young spark, There were nautical wheezes by mariner Noah when he sailed with the Zoo in the Ark ; There were jokes of goats, of mother-in-laws, of anglers and mythical fish ;
There were midsummer jestlets and Christmas puns—a widely assorted dish .; But the Editor knew them all too well, and his heart grew black with guile, As lie read the jokes that the Pharaohs told to the crocodiles down by the Nile. But all of a sudden he gave a cry, and' his breath came thick and fast, And he scanned a postcard eagerly, and then shouted, "At last ! at last ! ! A brand new joke ! Can ,it be, ye gods ? Yes, 'tis, yes, 'tis, I
vow !" Then his brain gave way with a horrid crack, and he's in the asylum now.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 2
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178TOO MUCH FOR HIM. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 2
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