A BOOM IN LAUGHTER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 469, 29 May 1912, Page 7

A BOOM IN LAUGHTER.

(We axe more easily amused every day ; it does not take so much to make us laugh now as it once did. — Mr. Albert Skinner.) "Morning Leader." When a prehistoric skater came a cropper On his head, And in consequence barbaric and improper Things he said, Not the semblance of a snigger Hailed his sudden overturn ; Troglodytes remarked his figure With an air of grave concern. When a valiant knight (who, liaply had been drinking Many stoups) Sat abruptly on his helmet without thinking, Piercing whoops Of unholy exultation Did not greet the episode ; Mo one felt an inclination With enjoyment to explode. Did ihe clown in cap and bells proro"nd the query, . "When's a door Not a door ?" Ms patient auditors a weary Aspect wore. "Let's have something not so hoary,' Victims fervently would beg, An 1 they simply loathed the story Of the curate and his egg. But in nineteen ten each humorist a-mumming Gets a laugh if he alludes to "twoeyed steaks." When he says "Go hon !" a guffaw is forthcoming ; Whin he says "'Pip, pip !" the gladdened gallery shakes ; And the jests that our forerunners Heard with grim, impassive visage Are accounted perfect stunners By the populace in this age ' 'Merry-Thought.' 1