THAT HABIT.
"What galls me," says the man with the disturbed eyebrows, "is one of these fellows who tells you a joke and then repeats the point. Honest, though, it's funny, when you think', of it. He'll tell the joke, then, after you've laughed, he'll repeat the nub of it and laugh again." '"Yes ?" comments the man with the pointed nose. "Yes. Tells the joke, then repeats the point. Ha, ha ! Funny habit ! Tells it, tben repeats it !" "Um ! I see," says the other. "I see."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 742, 3 February 1915, Page 3
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86THAT HABIT. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 742, 3 February 1915, Page 3
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