COULDN’T SHAVE A BIT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9161, 2 June 1908, Page 7

COULDN’T SHAVE A BIT.

When the famous archeologist came into the club on a recent afternoon his erudite countenance was ornamented nt several points with sticking-plaster, and there waa a general inquiry among his friends as to what was the matter.

“Razor,” said the professor, briefly. “Good gracious! Where did you get shaved?” asked one of the younger members, sympathetically. “It’s a strange thing,” said the man of learning. “I was shaved this morning by a man who really is, I suppose, a little above the ordinary barber. I know of my own knowledge that he took a double first-class at Oxford ; that he studied in Heidelberg afterwards, and spent several years in other foreign educational centres. I know, also of my own knowledge, that he has contributed scientific articles to our best magazines, and has numbered among his intimate "friends men of the highest, social and scientific standing in' Europe and America. And yet, ” .soliloquised the savant, “he can’t shave a man decently.” “By Jove!” exclaimed the young members in "astonishment. “What is he a barber for, with all those accomplishmenst?” “Oh, ho isn’t a barber!” said the bookworm, smiling. “Yon see, I shaved myself this morning.”