WIT AND HUMOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 4 December 1907, Page 4

WIT AND HUMOR.

Gaoler: That convict is what we call a tni-ty. We can put him at anything and lie -ure he won't try to escape. Visitor: How remark-aide! Gaoler: Ob, I don't know: lie'- in for bigamy. "Why doe- a woman always add a postscript to a letter?" "Well," answered the ungallant wretch. " she probably figures out in Imv own mind what her letter ha-, made you think. and then trie- to have the la-t word." ■There's nothing but beef and lieer. gentlemen." -aid the country inn-keep-er to the hungry tourists. "That will do. capitally, landlord," replied one of them. "The trivial round, the common cask, will furnish all we need to ask.'' •'Hello. Rnnimel. I hear your watch has been stolen?" "Yes. but the thief ha- already liecn arrested. Only fancy, the stupid fellow took it to the pawn--hop! There it was at once recognised as mine, and the thief was locked up." Officers: We have -ad news to bring you. Your husband fell after the firsT -hot of the enemy, and died without a sound. Wife: Yes, the man was alway- very taciturn. The Comte de Xatbonne. the friend whom Talleyrand lived the be-t—if he loved any one—was walking with him and reciting -ome verses, when Talleyrand perceived a pa-scr-liy yawning. "Look. Xarlionne." said he to his friend. "you are speaking too loud."