The Archive · 1937

Free and Easy

"I ADMIRED that last piece you played, Professor. It had a sort of wild freedom about it, you know—a sort of get up and go that just suited me. Was it a composition of your own?"

"Mad: rided the eminent musician was putting a new E string on my violin."

Miss One 'Towanns the end of the war an American sergeant ordered a coloured soldier, just arrived in France to go into a' dug-out and clean up any enemy.

The negro looked a bit scared, made for the dug-out entrance a turning to his comrades, said: "Of you sees three or fo' men. come running' out oh dat hole, don't shoot de fust one!"

Cause and Effect Tue teacher was giving a health talk to her class, and warned them never to kiss animals or birds, "Can you give me an instance of the dangers of this, Jackie?" she asked, "Yes, miss, my Aunt Alice used to kiss her dog."

"And what happened?" asked the teacher, "It died,"

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