A new clerk was always late, and always had a different excuse. Arriviing an hour late one morning, he was greeted by the boss with: “Well, Brown, what’s your story this time?” ‘Well, sir,” was the reply, “someone turned the mirror on the mantlepiece round to the wall. When I came downstairs this morning I couldn’t see myself in the looking-glass, and, naturally, I thought I’d gone to work!”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410320.2.99
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
69Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in