AUSTRALIAN HUMOUR.
Sir George Re id states that humour is the mosit important quaility in a speaker who wishes to interest Australian audiences. Their intelligence is Mended with an intense love of amusement. In an interview on the subject, Sir George recently said:— "I well remember an interruption which caused me much momentary perturbation. I was getting out of tlhe humorous into a very isad vein of thought (it was towards the close of my public career in Australia), and I was referring to the time when I should be passing to that bourne whence no traveller returns, when a voice rang out from the audience, *By Jove, George, the fat will 'be in "the fire then!'——subtle allusion to my good eighteen stone of avoirdupois. My only safety lay in joiming heartily in the general laugh."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10250, 29 May 1911, Page 4
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136AUSTRALIAN HUMOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10250, 29 May 1911, Page 4
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