AN AGED PUN
There are times when the pun, much abused and poverty-stricken and aged as it generally is, seems to justify its appearance. One day, when Mr. Potter was trying to read a romantic story to his matter-of-fact wife, he had recourse to a pun to save his temper, ‘ And so the evening wore on,’ read Mr. Potter, 1 And —’ ‘What did it wear?’ inquired his wife in her driest tone. . ‘ My dear,’ said Mr. Potter, after a scarcely perceptible hesitation, ‘ if you must know, it was the close of an autumn day.’
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New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1911, Page 790
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94AN AGED PUN New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1911, Page 790
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