He: “D’you know, I simply loathe that man over there.” She- “Sir that’s my husband! “Oh—ah yes —l ah (happy -thought) that’s why I loathe mm. ‘‘ X started out on the theory that the world had an opening for me.” “And you found it?” “Well, I’m in an awful hole at prevent.’’ Dear Old Lady (in telephone-box): -“I want you to put mo through to the -number 1 asked you for last Wednesday. I can’t think what it is just now, ■but you’ll remember we had a little bit vf bother about pressing button ‘ A. ’ ” A clergyman was playing golf with a •stranger who expressed himself very •forcibly each time he made a bad shot. His favourite expression was Oh, I The padre was no spoil-sport, but i\pnbe when his opponent came away with his phrase in more than usually emphatic tones, he remarked, gently:— L “My poor friend, are you kome-
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 311, 24 October 1929, Page 5
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