TE door of the cottage had needed repairing for many years, but the occupants were quite satisfied to ease it off the floor with a hatchet whenever it jammed.
There was a discreet knock at the door, and a head was popped out of the window to see who had arrived. The owner of the head quickly withdrew, and in a voice that the entire village might have heard yelled, "Quick, it's the new minister Copy Holding Roun, our 15-year-old cópyholder, means well but reads badly. In all seriousness recently he read out:
Socialists at the beach concert" though the copy was clearly: socialites at the Bach cancer!
As we go to press his latest howler when reading titles of some Shakespearian plays was "The Mating of the Shre A lad like that is too good to remain a mere copyholder. A few more bloomers like the above and hell have qualified for a reader' job!
"Printin Customs Men Tue holding up by, the English Customs of sculptureg^for the Tate Jallery reminds the Manchester "Guardian" of other instances in which the action of port authorities has caused indignation or amusement, Some years ago a famous French Egyptologist arrived at Marseilles with a royal mummy among his baggage. Officials search. ed the tariff list to determine und what head such an article as a Pharaoh could be assessed for duty—and finally decided to charge it as "dried fish." The United States Customs office, again, once held up a consignment of tropical butterflies for some weeks before deciding to charge them as poultry, "because they had wings" The owner inquired whether they would apply the same rule to archangels.
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