"Ah, Mrs Mudge, ' one-lialf of the world is ignorant how the other half lives." ''Not in this village, miss." Sympathetic Friend: "What's the matter with your thumb?" Victim: "1 hit-the wrong nail.'.'i'.. A male telephone operator was rudelv aroused from his slumbers by the ring*m.g of the telephone. After bruising his kneo on a. chair he reached the 'phone. "Hello," he'growled. "Are you a telephone official?" asked the voice. "Yes, what, can I "do for you?" "Tell nic," said the voice, "how it feels to get out of Led at two o'clock to answer a wrong number!"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 23 July 1929, Page 7
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