HUMOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 5

HUMOUR

The teacher wrote on the blackboard; •‘The horse and the cow is in the stable.” “Now.” she said to a little boy “what is wrong with that sentence?’* “Well, miss, you should say, “The eow and the horse is in the stable.’ ” “Why?” “ Indies first.”

The chess-player’s son. Chatterbox The two friends, prospectors, had **ach spent long, lonely months in the great open spaces. And now, as they drew up their horses at the store, they greeted each other with a nod. Supplies bought, they sat outside smoking. In silence they gazed into ihp distance. Finally, an animal appeared on the horizon. "Cow,*’ sa i I Bill. •Bull,” said Joe. Bill rose slowly; sa‘idled his horse. ••Where you goin'.’” asked his companion. “Guess I’m hillin’ the trail. Too much durned argyifyin* round here.”

“Don’t be a fool, James. If 1 can cut the linoleum with it, then you can easily shave yourself with it.”

Quick Worker The mother confronted her daughter. • • Did 1 see you kissing that youn; Allen last night?” she demanded. “ Well, mother, he told me he had just lost an uncle, and 1 felt so sorry for him. “If I know anything about that y<mng man, he won’t have a relative left in a week’s time!”

■ ing poker with him. and I won every time! ”

Off! The talkative workman was holding forth to an admiring audience in the tillage pul>. He "as explaining that *»\en in his job. which people might think dull enough, there was sometimes •‘Why. 1 tan remember <>nce when ' gas explosion tore up a main street where I was working.” “ And what did you do?” asked one “Ah.” replied the workman. “I tore up a side street.”

ihe sprinter who has just been announced a father.

It Isn’t Done The Negro had pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing chickens. “Have you any witnesses to call?*’ the magistrate asked him. “Well, sah,” replied the prisoner, “it’s easy to see dat you doan* know nothin’ ’bout stealin’ chickens. A mao never takes witnesses along with him for fnr a job like dat.”