"T'M sorry, didn't catch your nomi localister.'
"Do sit down, Mr. MacAlister—Scotch, I presume."
"Aweel, thank ye; an' just a wee drop o' water."
Endurance Test "Dw you ever hear about the Scotsman and the Jew who met while bathing, and bet each other £10 they could stay under the water longest?"
"No: why, who won?"
"I don't know—neither of them have come up yet." desi Vaal?
Froth-Blower He had just returned from a temperance at which he was chairman, "Well, dear," said his wife, "how did the meeting go?"
"Quite well, except for a lapse on the part of the lecturer."
"What was that?"
"He tried to blow some frots off a glass of water!"
"Poor Divil"
Mixer and Pat decided to go to a boxing match. One of the fighters was standing up so pluckily to a rare pasting that the crowd roared its approval. Mike turned to Pat and exclaimed:
"Well, at any rate, the crowd is with him,"
Pat nodded grimly. "Aye," he said, "and I bet IW poor civil wishes he was with the crowd."
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