SMILE AWHILE
Father hail promised his small daughter that if she were very good she should go to a certain popular music-hall in the evening on condition that she behaved nicely during the performance. She maintained an unusual subdued manner all day, and just before starting for the theatre inquired anxiously : “If there should be a joke, would they mind if I laugh?” * * * » After explaining to her class the use and meaning of a hyphen, the tcachcd asked why there was a sign of that kind between the two halves of the word bird-cage. Tho small boy whose hand shot up first said: “Please, miss, it’s for the bird to sit on.” “The colonel is very polite.” “His politeness was hard put to it' to-day, however.” “How i« that?” “He tried to bold a revolving door open for a lady.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 16
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140SMILE AWHILE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 16
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