Wit and Humour.
Your digestion is utterly ruined. You must have lived very immoderately.” Patient: “ Hood gracious, no! But my three daughters have been attending cookery classes for the last twelve months.”
Tommy (at the dinner-table)T “Mr Johnson, are you blind?” Mr Johnson : “No, my boy. Why do you ask?” Tommv: “Why, nothin’; only sister said yu’d get your eyes opened if you married that Griner girl.”
“You needn’t tell me,” said the merchant, as the clerk entered the office “ that you went to your grandmother’s funeral yesterday afternoon. I was there myself. Your grief was particularly violent when the run home which won the game for the other side was knocked out.”
Magistrate; The gamekeeper declares that he saw you take this pheasant. What have you to say to that ? Prisoner : I only took it for a lark. Magistrate : Six months for making suclqan onitho-logical error.
Insurance Agent: Before filing the claim, will you be kind enough to give me a certificate of your husband’s death, madarae ? The new widow : With pleasure.
“ The Edgerton children have a good time Christmas.” “In what way 1” “ Well, their father is a doctor, and their mother jots them eat everything they want.” /"> : \
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2076, 8 February 1898, Page 2
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200Wit and Humour. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2076, 8 February 1898, Page 2
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