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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 339, 21 January 1937, Page 8

RING OFF. Farmer Brown had gone up to Lonion for a few days. Before he started le had promised to buy his daughter i present, so he went into a jeweller’s shop and said to the assistant, “I want » pair of earrings, cheap, but pretty. They are for a present.” “Yes, sir,” said the assistant, ‘You want something a trifle loud. 1 suppose?" "Well, I don't mind if one of them s a trifle loud," replied the farmer. ‘My girl's deaf in one ear.” GOOD EVIDENCE. To the surprise of the magistrates, rnd especially of the official ooncern:d, the prisoner in the dock sailed the police' superintendent as his witness is to character. “But I don’t even know the man," complained the “super.” Indignantly. "And that," returned the prisoner, smiling at the bench, “is my proof of respectability. I’ve lived in this onehorse town for five years and the police don't even knew me."