The Archive · 1939

For Strong Men

A crown had gathered round a man who was selling tins of corn cure. After a long speech on its qualities, he asked if anyone in the crowd had bought a tin before.

A voice from the back of the crowd shouted, I bought one ten days (0.

hank you, sir," said the salesman.

"And did you find it all I say?"

Yes—and more. My misses didn't know what it was, so she used it to polish the furniture, and it took all the knobs off the chest o* drawers:

Unearthly Two boys climbed over a wall into a lon ove yard to share a bag of nuts, but dropped two while climbing the wall.

Two tramps who were passing stopped to listen to what they thought was an angel and the devil dividing the souls.

They had listened to a voice saying: "One to you and one to me," for some time. iddenly t paused and said; "That is the lot except for the two over the wall."

The tramps took to their heels, and have not been back since.

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

Your account