The Archive · 1937

Playing Safe

Two college juniors yawned, and id, "What shall we do tonight?

"Let's toss up a coin to decide," replied the other. "If it's heads we'll go to the movies; if it's tails we'll call on Rosie and Susie; and if it stands on edge we'll study."

Tent!

'A tance gentleman was one of a party of tourists visiting Palestine. At a hotel he was puzzled to find in his laundry account a charge made for "one tent."

On inquiry he discovered that what the Arab laundry believed to be a tent was one of his nightshirts.

Effective f "We've got to give him something that'll back-fire in his nose and make him sneeze," said the veterinsurgeon, called to treat the lum-jack. "Mix up a pint of linseed ^il, castor oil and red pepper. Tell me how he feels in the morning."

The next morning the foreman culled him on many "Three," said before and tw the foreman. "Once after he died."

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