The Archive · 1937

Late Arrival

A visrron at the house asked the small girl which member. of the family she liked best.

"Mummy," replied the child promptly.

"And the next be:

"My baby brother "Ana then?"

"Uncle."

Her father, who was in the room, thought this was going a bit too far, and so he chipped in. "Well, Betty, dear, when do I come in?"

Like a flash came the reply: "At 2 o'clock in the morning."

Pastry Anthony Lewis went to Rhode land Hospital doubled up with indigestion.

He explained to the doctors he had eaten two six-inch nails, a handful of small nails, a few screws, and four slivers of glass as a party stunt.

But Ive done it before and it never hurt me a bit," he complained. "I can't understand it."

X-ray pictures solved the myster It was not the nails or the glass—Lewis had eaten too much pastry.

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