The Archive · 1938

Cute Charles

A party of Americans was being shown round an ancient English church and they paused in front of an effigy of a knight who had lived in the days of Henry VII.

"Ain't he cute?" commented one of the ladies rapturously. "Why! He's actually wearing the same clothes as Charles Laughton.

Apprentice lr was his first day on the golf course, and after several shots he asked the caddie how he was doing.

"You're hitting them rather well" answered the patient caddie, "but not in the direction of the hole."

"Hole?" "What hole?" asked the novice.

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