The Archive · 1938

Well, TU Tell You

Irs funny how a habit can get a hold of us and finally get to be second nature, That's the reason it's a good idea for a person to get away once in a while and change his mode of living.

I knew of a folia who was arrested and convicted of bigamy one time, and when the judge asked him how in thd world he happened to do a thing like that the folia said, "Well, they sold! me a two-car garage, two telephones and so many two-pants suits and two of this and two of that T just got in the habit!"—Bv Bos Burns A Song—and Her Heart A stout, middle-aged couple had evidently been varying their week-end shopping with calls of a more social nature, Both were a trifle unsteady, and suddenly the woman slipped and shed her many parcels in the gutter: out of one rolled a large bullock's heart. Passers-by helped her to her feet and picked up her parcels for her. She was shaken, but unhurt, and was just moving off when someone espied the heart in the gutter, held it aloft, and shouted after her: "Oi, ma! You've dropped yer cart!"

Turning, the woman said to her husband: "Lumme, 'BW....Me cart was in me mouth when I slipped up—but I didn't know it came out that fu Then, having retrieved the heart, she carried it off without its wrappings—singing, "With me cart tucked underneath me arm!"

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