The Archive · 1937

A Reflection

You know Z is a beautiful letter, Just think. It comes right at the extreme end of the alphabet, and there's not another letter to learn after it. And not only that, it is so expressive as this little story will show.

A Zany and an educated Zulu went into a zygon (A connecting bar; you know, comecting two ends of the, room).

Says the Zany to the Zulu Say. the Zulu to the Zan; I beg. your pardon, Zany:—Granted el' cock! I was merely asking whether you'd care to guzzle the product of a zumological process in which zymes produce a zymotic beverage.

Zulu:—You mean will 1 accept some. light refreshment?

Zany:—Xou've got me.

Zulu:—The answer iz yez.

Whereupon the Zany reaching for his zax hit the Zulu in the zygomatic region and remarked:—"Iz zat 20?"

(Printer's Devil:"—My gawd! and to.think: he gets paid for doing that.")

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

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