The Archive · 1939

IN PARENTHESIS

Tramp's Request you think you could give me some plum-pudding, lady, to stick this nice piece of holly in?"

Too True Do you really love me?" one of King Solomon's wives once asked him.

"My dear," replied the King, "yeu are one jin a thousand."

Howler "MEMBERS of Parliament," wrote a schoolboy, "sit in the House of Commons and argue about the bills that come in. If the Bills are passed, we pay them; if ihey are not passed, we do not."

Mark of a Bore Ler us always remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody. The most cer-lain mark of a bore is a complete assurance that he is exception to this rule.

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

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