PERSEVERANCE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 154, 10 March 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

PERSEVERANCE.

Exasperated Housewife: "I have told you a dozen times I don't want machine! At him, Tiger!'' Man at the Door (while the dog 'r gnawing his leg: "Don't want it, ma'am r Pardon me. you haven't yet won half its uood points. It washes the e ! othes cleaner tlia nany other, and in less than half the time. It never tears oft' a "Gnodne-ri! Don't you rieE> what the Jo if is doing I- I '' " I have to put up witli such things, ma'am, and it is in a good cause. This machine is the be-t one ever invented, h I succeed in introducing one into a family I feci 1 hare done a benevolent act. You can I'.tse any kind of water, hot or——" "Oh ! oil! oil He'll kill you ! What i ■ ihe machine worth "It's v.'.rih a hundred pounds in any i':.mily, but I am selling it for just ene [. und ten, and ' "j I.your money. I'll take 't! Tger! Tiger 1 l.et go!" " L>-t hiui aline ma'am let alone! It > a wooden hg. I've :;ot .mother one at home ail ready for u-e vil.eii th's one v.orn out. l.oakif we were going to iiavo icon. Romem!h r. you < an u.-o any rind of water, and if your -oap i« all right you can He's goi tiiod of it. Good dog. Tiger --LZC.od OOg We'i. I HUM he i;o:Og aiic: 1 oon." so DID THE CUI'RT. A certain individual in Glasgow w;;> iwnimaned recently, charged with being found oil licensed premises during hiwine-s hours. According to the police, he had uiven a wrong name and address, hut they had been siiecessiul in discovering his wlu'roahouts. The defence was somewhat ingenious and fmartiv conducted up to a certain point. It's a pure case of mistaken identit v." said dt -fondant's. -olidtoi . " i hav.o hero i photograph ot the man want'l by the police. My <Ti< nt was not in t'ae la.use in -piestioti at all that day. :iv you iniisi admit."' "That's it." interrupted the defendant. ''they mi-took th.o other fellow for Tliore was a moment's y'loneo, after wii'i h the niaffi-traie- suddenly a-kod : "When the sergeant found von i\ith the glass in front of you. whv did you not explain that you *oro not the mail wanted ' J " "T did." blurted out "lost tlw officer laughed." So d : d the court. T.et u< hope that science. commerce and labour will flourish, for the slieddip'r of l lood u a thankless bu-inc-s. - Bi-marek.