Two labourers were working on a very tall block of apartment buildings. Suddenly the man at the top of the ladder called to his mate at the bottom: “I say, Jim. come up here a minute and listen.” His mate slowly climbed the ladder and at last, quite out of breath, reached the top. “I can't hear anything.” he said, after listening intently for a while. “No.” said the other. “Ain't it quiet!”
The strong man at the fair had just finished squeezing the juice out of a lemon. Holding it up before the crowd he shouted: “I’ll give £5 to anyone who can squeeze another drop of juice out of this lemon!” Up stepped a little man. He gripped the lemon and, to the surprise of the crowd, squeezed several more drops from it. “It's easy,” he murmured, “I’m an income-lax collectorl”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 3
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