Little Laughs

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Little Laughs

N-0 NEED FOR ALARM I “ A man round the corner has just run his motor car into a building, officer!” cried little Willie on meeting a policeman. " Goodness! I must go and see him about that at oncel” exclaimed the officer as he hurried off. "Don’t worryl He has only run it inside his garage! ” cried the young joker. A GOOD IDEA 44 Mary,” said the mistress to her new maid, who had agreed to pay for all breakages, “ do you know that already the cost of the china you have broken amounts to more than your wages? ” "Really, ma’am?” gasped Mary. “Yes, and I don't know what we can do about it,” said her mistress. " Neither do I, ma’am, unless you raise my wages! ” replied Mary.

A STITCH IN TIME ESX?E£f " Now that hole you see in the Admiral’s waistcoat,’ explained the museum guide, “ is where the bullet went through that ended his life.” "Dear me! What a pity he didn’t mend it before the bullet went through,” said the lady visitor. “It might have saved his life! ’

THE THANKFUL IRISHMAN An Irishman was relating to some friends how one night, on retiring to i bed. he fancied he saw a ghost, and, I having a revolver handy, he fired at j it. The next morning he examined the object he had shot and discovered It to he his shirt. “What did you do then?” asked one of the company. “Bedad, I just oreathed a prayer of thankfulness that I wasn’t inside it 1”