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MOTOR HUMOUR

Teacher (explaining the ten,sea) ”H X said, ‘My father had a ear,’ that would be the past tense. Now Betty, if you said, ‘My father has a cm, what would that be?” Belly: "Pretence,"

Crawford: "I suppose your wife neglects her home more than ever since she has started driving a car?” C'rawshaw: “'No, you’d bo surprised at the change in her. She can now :..weepf dust, clean windows, and put a piano polish on everything.” Mary had a little car, With body bright and shiny; Sire drove along the cliff 011 c day, Then drove into the briny. Constable: "Halt! Yen under arrest.” Motorist: “What for?” Constable: "Never mind. I an’* goin’ tuh give ye any chance to tnink up excuses.” Mother and I will stick to our custom of ki: sing the children goodnight before they go to bed, but its getting mighty tough waiting up for them in these motor car days. A dilapidated American car of the coupe type appeared in ah American street,* with a placard reading:— “Chicken, here’s your coop.”

"Hello Jim! Where are yer working nah?" "I gotter job at the motor factory. They ain’t 'arf particular, tho’ ‘Ave to work to a thou’.” "What’s a thou.?” “Why a little bit of an inch.”' “’Ow many are there to an inch?” , "Oh, millions of the little beggars.”

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Shannon News, 8 July 1927, Page 2

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226

MOTOR HUMOUR Shannon News, 8 July 1927, Page 2

MOTOR HUMOUR Shannon News, 8 July 1927, Page 2

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