The Archive · 1937

In Parenthesis

He's So Bright, Too Visrror: "Your son is rather small for his age, isn't he?"

Proud Mother: "Oh, no; most boys of his age are Bapor, I think."

Up To The Neck Bore—"Tm a born enthusiast. Whatever I undertake I throw myself into wholeheartedly."

Listener—"I wish you'd undertake to dig a deep here"

Collective Security Law (to tramp)—Now go away or call my husband.

Tramp—Oh, im! I know im. Es the little feller who told me yesterday to go away or he'd call his wife!"

Couldn't Be True Tur drunk halted in front of an enormous stuffed tarpon in a plass cage. He stared at it for a minute or two in silence. Then he said: "The folia who caught—hic—that fish is a—hic—liart"

The Bottle Is Still Missing PasstNGER—"I left a bottle of Scotch in the train this morning."

Conductor—"Was it turned into the Lost and Found Department?"

Passenger—"No, but the fellow who found it was."

Stream-Lined Fmsr Aviator—"Ruth is a perfect streamlined girl"

Second Aviator—"What do you mean stream-lined?"

First Aviator—"No resistance, big boy, no resistance."

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

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