The Archive · 1937

In Parenthesis

Customer is Right Customer: "Have you a book called Man, the Master of Women?"

Sales Gifl: "Fictibn department fo the right, sir."

Discount Doctor: "The operation will cost you.50 guineas."

Patient (a butcher): "But ain't there any reduction to the trade?"

Cash "I've discovered a new method of "obtaining money from my husband."

"Indeed!"

"Yes! threaten to return to mother and he hands me the railway fare."

Over-Weight A tay at Dovercourt Bay, Who ate far too much every day, Said, "Fried fish and chips Have so altered my hips—I aren't even think what I weigh!"

Col. Blimp d Ir you go to Southend for à blow, A paddle, a bathe or a.row, You will see Colonel Blimp In pursuit of a shrimp—But not if the tide is too Low. wee Going Down Tuere was an oid fisher of Hayling Who hired out his boat to go sailing.

He would sit in the stern With complete - unconcern; The others spent all the time bailing.

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