QUITE A VETERAN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 22, 19 March 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

QUITE A VETERAN.

• It \v;is no picnic, I assure you." said :i niiin in khaki. "In :< ! ! 1 was engagi'tl live times, and - - " ; "Pooh!" suddenly interrupted the precocious Willie. "Thai was nothing •• Wliv. Willie !" corrected his moth; r. "What'do you menu ?" •■ 1 mean that live ain't so many,'' was iliv' startling rejoinder of Willie. "Why, sister Ohuhs lias been engaged nine times'."

The inscription on the totuh of a long dead c'lehrity was much obliterated and under the direction of an anticpian a man was employed to recut the letters.

The antif|tinry stood looking over •liim, so that he' should make no mistake, ami, to make the time go pleasantly, lie dwelt nl ureal length to the workman upon the grandeur and merits of the deceased. The man eventually stopped his work, and, looking up at.the antiuuary. said: "1 wish, sir, that we had known that he was such a swell lie fore we run that there drain-pipe through him."

Mmlgc: " Hwo's a man figured on' that if all tho v vney in the world irero divided equally, eaeh adult would get about C 10." Mi ok : " ITo'.i wrong. My wife would ~-,' i, £20!"