She shut off the gramophone and turned excitedly to her father. "Dad." she exclaimed, "that is the latest kind of jazz record. Did you ever hear anything so wonderful?” Father, who had been trying to read his evening paper, grunted. "No.” he replied wearily, "i can’t say I have, although I once heard a collision between a wagon-load of empty milk cans and a farm-cart filled with live ducks.” At a dinner a waiter discovered a, man systematically trying the knives with his thumb, some time before the) meal was due to begin. "What are you I doing?" he asked. "Times knives arei sharp." "Ah." replied the propeclive diner, “'taint that! I'm looking for a blunt 'tin. I was here last year and cut my mouth.” |
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1939, Page 8
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