Wit and Humour .
Mrs Newlywed; ‘Pm going to sprinkle a little poison on this piece of angel oake, and put it where the mice can get it j X think it will kill them.’ Mr Newlywed ; ‘ Why, of course it will l But why do you want to put the poison on it P
‘ I don’t see why it should be deemed a disgrace,’ the youthful bachelor remarked in the course of the . conversation, ‘ for a woman to ask a man to marry her.’ ‘lt isn’t a disgrace,’ replied the elderly maiden. * Idiocy is a misfortune.’
Tim—(studying his lesson). ‘Sir Isaac Newton discovered the great law of gravitation by an apple falling on his head.’ Pat: ‘ Shure and it’s a good t’ing for science that it wasn’t a hod o’ bricks, or he’d never knowed phwat it was.*
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2084, 8 March 1898, Page 2
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138Wit and Humour. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2084, 8 March 1898, Page 2
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