Let's Laugh

Radio Record, 21 August 1936, Page 56

Let's Laugh

RENT COLLECTOR: I’m to give you warning that the landlord is going to raise your rent. : Tenant: That’s good news, because I can’t raise it myself. ¥* a wit OHN: How do you’tell the age of a chicken? Jack: By the teeth, . John: Whose leg are you pulling? Chickens have uo teeth, Jack:. Of | course * they lhaven’t, but I have. x ° a * BROTHER "BILL had left his watch in his room and be asked his brother Peter to run upstairs and fetch it. "It will run down itself if you wait long enough," replied Peter. % _ * OME students were gather- "™ ‘ed about the entrance to their college as a boy passed by leading a donkey. "Why are you holding on so. tightly to your brother?" asked one of the students. — "So that be won’t join your college," answered the boy quietly. SS ae " * LI°TLE Johuny’s medicine was anything. but pleasant, and his mother was having great difficulty in trying to get him to take it. "Come, come, Johnny," she said pleadingly, "take your medicine like a man." "Like a man!" Johnny objected. "No jolly fear." "But why not?’ she asked. "Well, it says on the bottle than an adult has to have twice as much as a boy," replied Johnny. ws * * HE new servant was clearing up when the distinguished writer entered his study. , : "You are not burning my papers?" he exclaimed, seeing the girl by the fire. "It’s quite all: right, . sir," replied the girl. "It’s. ouly some that’s covered with writing. . I’ve left the clean paper alone." Bd F 3 E was telling the company: tales of his travels. "There was the lion,’ he said, "and here was I, Just over there was a_ solitary tree. I dashed toward it, but as I approached I realised that the lowest branch was' quite twenty feet. from ve ground, so I jumped for it." "And did you reach it?’ queried a listener. "T missed it, going’ up," said’ the traveller, "but TIT grabbed it’ as‘ I came down."