The Archive · 1939

In The Money

DvmiNG the natural history lesson the teacher exhibited a bowl containing fish, and asked:—"Now, can anyone tell me what a goldfish is?"

There was prolonged silence until one small boy ventured. "Please sir, is it 2 sardine what's come into money?"

Their Fault A WOMAN stood on the edge of the busy street, watching the endless stream of traffic, and "biding her time" until there was a clear road.

A friend came up to her and said, "Are you waiting till the traffic clears? I wouldn't bother if I were you—just turn your back on them, like I do, and if they hit you it's their fault!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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