Dovctas Jerrold was accounted the greatest wit of his generation. They were talking in a certain company about a popular song. One rather silly young enthusiast exclaimed: "That air always carries me away when I hear Jerrold wistfully looked around him. "Can anybody whistle it?" he inquired.
Profiteer Tne vicar's little daughter tripped over the mat and exclaimed, "Damn!", "Edith, that's naughty!" admonished her father. "I'll give you six pence if you'll promise never to say that word again.
A few hours later she returned and said, "Father, I've got a word worth half-a-crown!"
To Let "Goop morning." said the stranger to a woman who had answered the door bell. "Would you like to buy some insect powder?" stuff.
"No," she snapped, "I have no use for that
"Good," replied the stranger, "I will take that room you are advertising."
Records Tue craze for discovering all sorts of strange cricketing records produced, ten years ago, the following gently cynical lines;—A left-handed bowler called Clover Bowled seventeen wides in one over.
This had never been done By a clergyman's son a Thursday, in August, at Dover.
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