The Archive · 1938

IN PARENTHESIS

Eat Any Yin Mas, Booms:

My son is wearing his Eton suit Neighbour: Moths are a nuisance, aren't they?

Stey by Step "Ir I had a new hat," said Bilton's wife just before Christmas—"t fell you, John, that if I had only got a new hat, I'd wear it with a fur coat, if I had a fur coat."

Another "Stranger"

Jim: I understand you told Smith that I was a liar.

Joe:—No. Merely remarked that if your life depended on your telling the truth, I'd like to insure you, Old Stock "This arse old," the dealer protested. "Why, 'e's a blooming' good orse—not arf strong in the: wind, believe me!

"He must be," the customer retorted, "He's blown all his teeth out."

Acquittal A Davelrer (looking up from her novel): Papa, in time of trial, what do you suppose brings the most comfort to a man?

Papa (who is a newly-appointed judge): An acquittal, I should think, Babbling Brook "An, me," sighed the gossipy female boarder, "one half of the world does not know how the, other half lives."

"Oh, well, don't worry about it," growled the old bachelor at the foot of the table, "It isn't your fault if it doesn't know." te Discretion the Better Part Tur two rival football teams were going at it lustily, Fouls were frequent, but the referee seemed to shut his eyes to all the infringements.

o is the referee?" asked a spectator.

you ask me," replied another, "he's one of them non-intervention blokes."

Not Even Half "I wourw'r have minded the things you said," grumbled, hubby, "but I didn't like being called only half a man,"

"But" she replied sweetly, "I did not"

"No, I said, If you were only half a man,"

Sweet-Smiling bookkeeper and had been given a Pob oen Tur young lady was applying for-a as

figures to total as a test. When the employer found it was wrong, she smiled and said. "Of course, I am rather a stranger to figures,"

"Yes," grunted the boss. "From this addition I should say a total' stranger."

No Complaint Tur cinema was crowded. One young lady, missed by the usher, drifted derelict looking for a place. Eagerly she peered through the halt-darkness, Then she sighed with relief as she found a seat and sat down, She bent over towards the man sitting on) the other side and whispered, "This isn't reserved where I'm sitting, is it?" "Yes, I think it must be," was the reply, "he hasn't said a word."

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