'"Suatt. 1 wrap it up@for you, sir?"
"Na, na," replied Sandy, "Ail carry it, But it yea just pit the broon paper inside, and obleege me with a Wee bit pencil, Ab'I be' palr-[fectly prepared for any mair B.B.C. annoonce-
Neighbours Two neighbours were having a friendly "ais~
"There goes Mrs, Knowall," said one, "What a nosey-parker she is. Believe me, that woman Jeven stops to listen when two roads meet,"
Black-out Bruises Owine to the black-out, some of the advance troops suffered casualties, one bruised nose being treated in the local, where mopping-up operations were carried out successfully.
"The spirit of the troops is excellent, Annoying SumMoNcD at a London Police Court for driving without a ticenee, a motorist pleaded "guilty under great provocation."
Clerk: "You couldn't have been provoked into riving without a Ieence:
"Oh, yes, T could," was the reply. "I hadn't, Jany mone} 3
Both Broke Tue head of the bullion department of a famous City house met a friend outside the Bank of Englan io, what are you doing in the City to-leav?" he was asked: He replied, "I'm collect-Ing for indigent bullion brokers." And he held Jout the gas-mask case he was carrying as [though it were a collecting box.
His friend put his hand in his pocket, and Anthem Is as Anthem Does Distursina, in a way, this news from Siam, they have decided to change the wording of the national anthem, "with a view to inducing "This takes me back to my first day at school, when T was made to sing, to the tune of our own anthem, the words AH WAH TAH NAH SIAM. But, seriously (tee-heel), what could be more fAtting than the classic Words of Sham-Pu, the Banckole Chaucer (1120-1100)? Freely translated, yoy Fun:
Known to anemic aliens by our twins and eas My country nevertheless remains cool and Gignifled (cymbal effect)
As the moonbeam listens on a saucer of cold tapioca Almost any Wednesday night.
Accompaniment is a quintet of three nose-fantes, a steam-calliope and a giant zither, distinguish them from the Blackbird, and because they are not truly black but slate-grey above {the Japanese Grey Thrush breeds in Japan and passes us in spring and autumn on its way to fand from its Southern winter quarters....but have recently been surprised to find the (or much the same) bird further North and travelling down on ships; also 1 have noted that these specimens are darker (or blacker) than the usual slate-black of the Japanese bird, T am making a small bet with myself that are now soving the Chinese Grey Thrush—known to be darker than the Japanese bird, and caled by science Turdus cards tatous instead of plain Tccardis, All very dificult, but it has to be done and at least gives me the opportunity to introduce that old English "shanty" about {the blackest of all our Thrushes:
Where be that Blackbird tu?
US knows where the lay, Onderneath yon Wurzel tree, US knows where she lay.
now I want to know, what is a Wurzel tree? [Wil Mr. Kerr please oblige?
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