The Archive · 1938

IN PARENTHESIS

Summer Season SERGEANT (to recruit, who has come on parade h a button unfastened): "What's the meaning of this? Sun-bathing? 3

Y 6. a Reminder Ir is well to remember that you cannot push yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

Correct "Ir I had a wife like yours I'd stay at home every night in the week."

"You certainly would. That's just the way it is with me." xe Perfect A cANDIDATE for the Civil Service was asked to give the number of bales of cotton exported from the United States in any one year. He replied: "1491: None."

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

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