BUYING A PET.
“The last canary I bought only lived two months. Another died, in less time than that. I am not getting value for my money.” “Suppose you try a tortoise, mum, suggested the gentlemanly dealer. “They are said to live only four' hundred years.” THE HIGHER Old Jos'h (who has just purchased stamp): Would yer mind a-stickin’ of it on for me, Missie? Oi bain’t no scholard. IN A DRY COUNTRY. “Are you Dr. Smith?” “No, but 1 know where we can get some.” THE WANDERER Sometimes when people pity me I tell them with no rancor That for what it costs me to be free I might have bought an anchor. —-Witter Bynner in The Nation. Like his Father.—“ Wot you doin’ chile ?” “Nothin’, mammy.” “My. but you is gettin’ like yoh father.” A Holesale Business.—Customer: But do you really refund the prices of these hose if they fail to prove holeproof? Salesman: My dear .madam, we do it gvery day!
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1921, Page 9
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164BUYING A PET. Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1921, Page 9
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