A young Englishman was at a party composed of Scotsmen, and though he made several attempts to crack a joke, he failed to get a ingle smile from his companions. Finally, he exclaimed petulantly: "It would take a gimlet to put a Joke into the heads of you Scotsmen.
"Ay." replied one of them; "but the gimlet wud need to be mair pointed than yere jokes."
Slight Error Tue approach of the racing season reminds tone of the woman who was congratulated by a felond in the street, who said he was delighted to hear that her husband had won ten pounds {n, the Grand National, "Thank you very much," she replied, "but it wasn't. my husband, it was my brother, and it wasn't the Grand National, it was the Lineolnshire, and it wasn't ten pounds, it was ten shillings and he didn't win it, he Yost it."
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