The Archive · 1939

IN PARENTHESIS

How Surprising My young daughter, aged nine, came running in the other day and exclaimed, "Mummy, Mrs, Smith has got two unexpected' mothers."

"Dig Up Tommy"

A MOTHER who had previously refused to have her son evacuated sent the following note to school:

"Dear Teacher, I have changed my mind and have decided I would like to have Tommy, Disillusioned Hussann (furious): "Elsie, do you realize re married to a bank clerk?"

"Well, you surprise me! When I saw this dressmaker's bill I thought you were under the impression that you had married a bank."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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