JOTTINGS.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 4

JOTTINGS.

Get Out of It Husband (returning from angling trip) What do you think of these beauties? Wife—Don’t try to deceive me. Mrs Naybour saw you in the fish shop. Husband—Yes, I know she did. You see I caught so many I simply had to sell some. Wonderful. , Married Woman—Ah. my husband has always been a lucky "man. As a child he was thrown by a horeo but wasn’t injured.. As a youth tho ice broke beneath him but he wasn’t drowned. As a young man he was caught in an alpine avalanche but escaped uninjured. , i # Bachelor—And he has now been married twenty years and is still alive. Hard on Him. A tourist in Scotand came to a wide ferry. It was stormy, and the wind was constantly .The Scottish ferryman agreed to take the tourist across, but told him to wait until he had first taken a cow across. When ho returned and started across with tho traveller, the latter became curious. 1 ‘ Will you tell me why you took tho cow across and made me wait?” he asked. ‘ l Weel, now,” exclaimed the ferryman, "you see the coo wur valuable, and I feared the wind wud increase so the boat might upset on the secondL buy the best.”