The Archive · 1938

Resignation

Wynn's definition of a parking spa the "place where you take your car to those little dents put in the mudguards, Flashes Jusr when England hud' made considerable progress in solving: its housing problem, the United States decides to send it an Ambassador with a wife end-nine children,—Blemingham Heart Action "I vox's like your heart action," said the family doctor to the young man, "But of course you've hid some previous trouble with angina pectoris."

The youth heaved a deep sigh.

"Yes, doctor, 1 have, 1 "But you Moonlight Faith Preacnen: Do you say your prayers at night, little boy?

Jimmy: Yes, si.

Preacher: And do you always say them in the morning, too?

Jimmy: No, sir, 1 ain't red in the daytime, Very Dark Tur old negro parson was preaching from the text: "And darkness fell upon the earth, Jand gross darkness on the minds of the people."

"Now, brethren," he started, "dere may be some oh you who just don't' know what dat gross darkness' do mean, Well, Ah'll tell you, income, but you will never be rich, Young man: Eh? Why not?

Fortune-toller: You are not a wonderful gift. How id: you know T was wasteful?

Fortune-teller: You have. just' wasted lings having your fortune told, "Walking Still"

Rosixson's whiskey was disappearing in' a manner which he thought suspicious. So he talked to his new housekeeper about It.

"Your predecessor," he said, "was a very. tramtworiie™ woman. You bee, tint otto "T-hope, sir," interrupted the "hous you don't think that T would stoop to, touch come from honest English parents, and—"

"r'm_ not gru at your parents," replied Robinson, "It's your Scotch extraction that I'm complaining of."

The Philosophor moesratan crossed a traMecfilled street while looking up at an aeroplane overhead. [Three buses shaved him so closely that his beard didn't appear again for a week, the wind from six passing cars raised the nap on his last year's suit, one five-passenger car removed the shine from the back of his left shoo, and the drivers of seven other assorted makes, [white stripping their gears in an effort to avoid him, also stripped their vocabularies of avery known high-powered adjective. After stumbi-Ing over the kerbstone on the farther side of the road, the pedestrian was heard to murmur:

ves'

ericlous, those airmen lead dangerous Kill or Cure He was a hard-headed Yorkshireman, noted for his shrewdness? over business affairs, One day his wife was taken seriously Ill, and he called in a doctor. After the latter hind made his examination, the Yorkshireman asked if the illness was likely to be a Jong one.

"Yes, I'm afraid i's very serious" said the doctor, who had not quite understood, "Then T'll give you five pounds, kill or cure said the patient's husband, "'and'no more, wilt [you get from me, Will you agree to tha The doctor agreed, after thinking it over for a moment. Unfortunately, the patient died, and {the doctor duly sent in his bill for five pounds, The Yorkshireman refused to pay. "Well, was your own arrangement," said the doctor when. he met him, "and you'll pay or go to jeourt."

"All right" said the bereaved man, "go to court land prove that you've earned it by either curing her or killing "her, and Til pay—but you did not cure her.

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