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Truthful Jam.es. * £ Wliat is the clefon<lant’s reputation for veracity?” asked the judge. ‘ 1 Excellent, vour Honour,” said the witness. “I’ve known him to admit that he had been fishing all clay and' hadn’t got a singL bite.” The Wrong Way. An old farmer, visiting a racecourse for the first time, decided to have a little flutter on a horse whose name he fancied. He was cautious, ancl backed the horse for a “place.” The race was run, ancl afterwards a friend met him. “You do look psA! ” exclaimed the friend. “What’s the matter?” “Matter enow!” grumbled the farmer. “I backed a horse for a place, ancl the brute has been and won, so I’ve lost me money, lad!”
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 122, 4 March 1926, Page 8
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119JOTTINGS. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 122, 4 March 1926, Page 8
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