The Archive · 1941

Benefit Performance

A vouxc man walked breezily into the doctor's surgery.

"Ah, good morning, sir!" he said. "I've just dropped in to tell you how greatly I benefited from your treatment."

The doctor eyed him up and down. "But T don't remember you," he said. "You're not one of my patients.

"I know," replied the other, "but my uncle was, and I'm his heir."

Oddments He: For two pins I'd kiss you. She: Diamond pins?

Willie: Rubber comes from a sap. Teacher: What happens to the sap? Willie: He goes to jail There's one thing to be said for a play-boy who spends all his time petting chorus girls. He gets a well rounded education.

"For a few cents my wife can make deserts for a dozen meals."

"That's a lot of applesauce!

"Yes, and I certainly get tired of it."

Kid Brother: Do you mean to say you want to be alone with my sister but you won't give me a quarter to run on an errand?

Suitor: That's right. Here's a dollar—if you'll walk,

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

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