HUMOUR

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

HUMOUR

Fashionable Her mother had brought the little girl to the barber’s, and while they waited Dulcie listened-in to everybody, including tho racing punters. “I want to have her hair bobbed,** said her mother. • "Yes; what sort of a bob would you like?” asked tho barber. * ‘Mummy,** asked tho little girl, ‘‘could I have a bob each way?’*

Off ! "You didn’t tell me that tho sailoc you introduced me to last night was a skipper,** complained one girl to an 4 other. "But I didn*t know he possessed a master* certificate,** protested her friend. “ Master ’a ticket, my eyel * * growled the other, “He took me to a restaur-* ant and skipped when it was time .to pay.**

In Any Case Donovan was repairing a roof when ho slipped and fell to tho ground. Bushing to his aid, passers-by asked him if he were hurt. "Not at all/* said Donovan. "Bure, I had to come down for nails, anyhow.’*

In a Nutshell Beturning from school one afternoon, Bessie informed her mother that she had learned how to "puucshate. '* “That’s line, dear," said the mother, ‘‘anil how is it done?’’ "Well, when you write ‘Hark/ you put a hatpin after it, and when you ask a question you put a buttonhook after it.’*

Some Party The steamer was just leaving the pier when a man rushed up and shouted: ‘‘Hold ou a minute, captain. There's a party of fifty coming aboard.** The steamer berthed again, and the individual strode up the gangway. "Where’s the rest of tho party!** "I’m that party; I’m fifty today.”