A doctor said to his daughter: "Did you tell the young man that I think he's no good?” "Yes," she replied, "but it didn't impress him. He said it wasn't the first wrong diagnosis you had made.”
The sleight-of-hand performance was not going very well. “Can any lady or gentleman lend me an egg?” asked the conjurer. "If we'd 'ad one," shouted a man in the audience, "you’d ’ave ’ad it long before now!”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 9
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