Short Shots

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 408, 17 December 1932, Page 12

Short Shots

'WARE THE DOCTOR. Mr. Isaacs stood at the door of his reception-room and greeted all the friends who had been invited to eelebrate the return of his son, Ben, from his medieal studies abroad. To each one the old man offered a cordial h'and, and said he was getting along - all right, but not feeling too good. Then his son arrived from the train, and was greeted noisily by the gathering. The son embraced his fatlier, and cried: — "Ah! My father, my father . . . how are you?" "I won't tell you," said the old man. "Won't tell him!" said Mrs. Isaacs. "Why, go on, papa . . . and tell your son Ben how you are." "No," said the old man. "He has always been' a gooa son by me, but we must not forget he is a doctor now. He might tell me I got 'something I have to pay for!" ❖ * -ji ❖ WATT, WATT? W'e apologise for this shoeking joke. Magistrate: "Who is this man, and what is he charged with?" Constable: "His name is S'parlcs, he's an electrician, -and he is charged with battery." Magistrate: "Put him in a dry cell." * * * * j INFORMATIVE. 1 The motorist was lost. He did not know which way to go. , Suddenly he .saw an old man ap- i proarching. j "Hi!" he shouted, "do you know the ' way to Mr. Ifoodink's pvlace " The old man shook his head. "No, lianged if I do!" he said. The motorist drove on slowly, and, when he had gone about half a mile, he heard wild shouts behind him. He stopped and looked around. The old ' man had been joined by another, and j they were waving him back. Slow- j ly and painfully, he baeked the car | down the narrow road. | "Well?" he said. "This is my friend, George," said j the old man. "He don't know neither." I OFF THE TARGET. A Negro was asked to supply a tame turlcey. The customer was insistent that it should be tame and not wild. When he came to carve the turkey, he found it full of shot, and j he reproached the negro for having ' supplied a wild bird. j "In stric' conndence," explained the ! negro, "Dem shot was intended for j me, not de turkey.