The Archive · 1939

IN PARENTHESIS

Successful A.RP, low did your black-out practice go?"

"Fine. My two elder daughters have both got engaged through i Fee Splitting T guess you're getting a good thin 1 the rich Smith boy, ain't ye, doctor "Well, yes; I get a Preity good fee, li I hope you won't forget that wraw the brick that hit The Last Straw "Yestemoay we had the first quarrel of our pee rhe, Sot mee "Well, would you believe i My husband refused' to carry it to the station All Happy Bousy had been taken up to see his new twin sisters.

"Aren't you -glad now," said his father, "that prayed for a baby' sister?"

"Yes," replied Bobby, grinni you glad I stopped when I did?"

Daventry Tells One Younc lady boasting to her gentleman friend that she had a repertoire of 600 songs, and asked her i€'she knew "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life"?

She replied: "Only what mother had told me, but I still am young.

Jail Sentence 'A business man, on retiring, wrote a book which he sent to' a publisher, The INS. was promptly returned. Much incensed, the author sent his work to a friend ina newspaper office, writing on the top corner, "What do you think' T ought to get for this?"

Back came the INS. with the brief reply written in the opposite corner, "Five years"

IRA, bie glee A Mr, James Brisbane is reported from America to have said that the English would be so "terrified" by the IRA. bombing campaign during the next ten months that all the Irish demands would be granted, The mental gulf between the two races is emphasized by his use of the word "terrified." Ho should have said "bored."

That 1s a possibility.

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