"So your name is George Washington, the old lady asked the.small coloured boy in an American hotel. be exactly like him, or "Lak who?"
"Why, like George Washington."
"Ah kaint help bein' lak Jawg Washington, cause dal's who ah is,"
Only Once Ix a certain town in a certain country a "tough guy" went into a hairdresser's shop for a shave, and, sitting down in the. chair, he growled at the barber, "I have a gun here ud if you cut me the slightest bit I shall shoot you."
The barber in fear and trembling set his apprentice to shave the formidable customer ho remarked to the boy: "Are you not afraid answered the boy, "If I cut you at all it will be your throat Our Needle Army Distixcvisuep Army officers are showing examples of their stitcheraft at the Needlework Society's Exhibition, which opens at 9, Grosvenor-square, W., today.
The colonel is clever with camps In pink or in yellow or blue: The major no amateur sham is When buttonhole stitching's to do: The general dotes upon doylies, So intricate, dainty and twee: Their showing of stitcheraft impresses. like witchcraft Coarse clumsies like you and like me.
But—soft!—who, at this exhibition Appears muffled up to the ears, An object perhaps of suspicion, Or maybe of jitter-bug fears? It is—yes it is!—Hore-Belisha, A mask o'er his features sublime—A sedulous rover, he's out to discover A method of stitching in time.
By F. G. H. Salusbury in the "Daily Herald"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.