A CUSTOMER in a restaurant sat and absorbed his soup with a tremendous amount of noise. The din was so loud that the proprietor walked. over with a frown on his face.
The diner looked up with a grin.
"I always make a lot of noise when I have soup," he explained. "The more I enjoy it, the louder the noise."
The proprietor beamed. "Then," he said, "you must be enjoying your soup very much."
"I really can't tell yet," replied the other. "You see, I'm hard of hearing Howlers Tue following schoolb howled are culled from Cecil Hunt famous collection:
Luther did not die a natural death: he was excommunicated by a bull.
Poetry is where every line starts with a capital lette:
Punctuality is hard to remedy once it is firmly established in the system.
Excommunication means. that no one is to speak to someone, The doctor felt his patient's purse.
In this country you have to produce a certificate before you can prove you are born, He Kept the Date "MIXING business with pleasure led to the undoing of a New York burglar, Joseph Perez.."—Central News.
When Joseph Perez, like a mouse—Lets call him Joe: it's best for verse—Broke into an apartment hou:
He came upon a sleeping nurse: He chuckled waggishly, did Joe, And tickled her upon her toe, The nurse awoke and saw a man She did not scream, she did not bulk: She had a far, far better plan She kept him in improving telic Until, much touched, he gave her all The cash he'd pinched—his precious haul He asked the nurse to marry him:
The nurse declined, but made a date: And when Joe kept it—ah, how grim!—He met a copper as his Fate.
The moral as one may descry, Is "Let all sleeping nurses lie."
—By F. G. H. Salusbury in the "Daily Herald."
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