AVOIDING THE RUSH.
As the clocks struck the hour of 3 a.m. the policeman standing in the shadow heard the sound of breaking glass. lie hurried round the corner just in time to see a man reach his hand inside a show window and grab something. “Here! What are you doing?” he demanded, seizing the felltw by the collar and suoving a revolver in his face. “I’m doing my Christmas shapping early,” replied the other, sulkily.
Bright Little Chap.—Cawker: “When do babies begin to think?” Walker: “Well, mine began to think that I ought to walk the floor with him the second night he was in the house.”
“Un.Je” Got Them.—Checkly: “Did you hang up your stocking on Christmas Eve?” Harduppe: “No, not quite so bad as that; but I hung up my overcoat and watch.”
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 11, 28 January 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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136AVOIDING THE RUSH. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 11, 28 January 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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