SUPPOSED HUMOUR.
Aniong the members of' a working gang on the Great.Northern Railway was an Irishman who claimed to be very good at figures. The boss, thinking that lie would get ahead of Pat, said:— "Say, Pat, how many shirts can you get out of a yard?" "That depinds," answered Pat, "on whose yard you get into." Wife (dining at restaurant): "John, dear, can you see What those people at the next table are eating?" Husband: "Can't see at all, but it sounds like celery." "I was reading an—aw —account of a woman being gored to death by a beastly cow, doncher know," remarked young Dudleigh. "Weally, I can't imagine a more howwible affair, can you, Miss Causiiqua?" "No, Mr Dudleigh," replied Miss Caustique, "unless it is being bored to death by a calf,"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 November 1913, Page 2
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134SUPPOSED HUMOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 November 1913, Page 2
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