ODDS AND ENDS
Mother : ' Tommy, have you eaten all your sweets without even thinking of sister?' Tommy : ' Oh ! no, mamma. I was thinking of her the whole time. I was afraid she'd come before I'd finished them!' ' This,* said the guide in a Dresden art gallery, ' is the famous Sistine Madonna. This painting is worth close on one million dollars.' ' Does that include the frame?' asked the tourist from Chicago. ' What do you want to set such a tough chicken before me for.' indignantly exclaimed a fair damsel in a restaurant the other day. 'Age before beauty, always, you know, ' ma'am,' replied the polite attendant, who well knew how to serve his employer and a tough chicken at the same time.
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New Zealand Tablet, 9 July 1908, Page 38
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121ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 9 July 1908, Page 38
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