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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936
SENSE OF HUMOUR
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say, "she is responsible. She is the street, leaving me still laugh- labad Izek doll,” he says.
ing from thinking of how amazed. Well, a few days after these I Then he starts to laugh, and at Frankie Ferocious will be when see by the papers where a couple first I am greatly horrided think-Joe bounces out of the sack and of Harlem guys that I know Joeling it is because something about starts throwing alugs around and the Joker is mobbed up with are Freddy being sacked strikes his about. I do not hear of Joe from found done up in sacks over sense of humour when he says to that time to this, but I hear the Brooklyn very dead, indeed, and me like this:
rest of the story from very reli the coppers say it is because they
“Say," he says, “I am going to able parties. are trying to move in on certain play a wonderful joke on Frankie It seems that Ropes McGonigle business enterprises that belong to Ferocious.”
does not deliver the sack himself jnobody but Frankie Ferocious.
“Well, Joe.” I say, "you are not after all, but sends it by an ex- But, of course, the coppers do not asking me for advice, but I am pressman to Frankie Ferocious's say Frankie Ferocious puts these
It is guys in the sacks, because in the g to give you some free, gratis. house on Bedford Avenue,
not play a nice three-storey house, in a fine and for nothing. Do will report
I hear any jokes on Frankie Ferocious, neighbourhood, although {them to headquarters if the copas I hear he has no more sense the other neighbours never pers say such a thing about him of humour than a nanny goat. Isider Frankie Ferocious any boost and in the second place putting hear Frankie Ferocious will not to property values in this section.
Slaugh if you have Al Jolson, Eddie guys in sacks is strictly
It seems that Frankie Ferocious Louis ides, and to have a guy put Cantor, Ed Wyn and the Marx receives many sacks such as this in a sack properly you have
Brothers telling him jokes all at in his time, because it seems that send to St. Louis for experts in
once. "In fact I say, "I hear it is a sort of passion with him this matter, although I hear that he is a dead tough audience.”
to personally view the contents of some very good sackers are being
"Oh," Joe the Joker saya, "he the sacks and check up on them| Now putting a guy in a sackmast have some sense of humour before they are distributed about somewhere to stand for Rosa. I the city, and of course, Ropes DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS is not as easy as it sounds, and. hear is daily about her. In fact,**
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for Frankie. a guy in a sack properly, you first be really likes, and trusts. But naturally no guy is going to walk: going to have myself delivered to
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personally lugs it down into his into a sack wide awake unless he Frankie Ferocious in a sack”
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Cause it acers that when Ropes around his neck and under his to Frankie Ferocious in
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Funny sack, and leave him some of course I have no idea Joe really the Joker's plan, Frankie tells
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Ropes what he is going to do with "Ahis own hands before opening the
in the sack, naturally he wants to guy from St. Louis who is a friendsack. Naturally Ropes speaks to get out, and the first thing be does of mine is doing most of the sack-Joe the Joker of Frankie's idea out bising for Frankie Ferocious His about filling the sack full of slugs, knees. This pulis the cord around name is Ropes McGonigle. In and Joe's sense of humour comes
fact." Joe says, "he is a very dear right out again. his reck so tight that after" a
So, bound and gagged, but while the guy is all out of breath. old pal of mine, and he has a won-
So then, when somebody comes derful sense of humour like me otherwise as right as rain in the along and opens the sack, they find Ropes McGounigle has nothing sack that is delivered to Frankie the guy dead, and nobody is re/Whatever to do with sacking Fred-Ferocious, is by no means Joe the
unfortunate dr," Joe says, "and in fact he is Joker, but Boss. sponsible for this situation, because after all the guy very indignant about it since he really commits suicide, because if finds out Freddy is my brother
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Well, a day or two later I see Pee and tells him he will appreciate by the papers where three Brooklyn it as a special favour if Ropes citizens are scragged as they are will bring me to him in a sack. walking peaceably along Clinton I suppose," Joe says, "that Frankie Street, the scragging being done Ferocious hears from Rosa what by some parties in an automobile Freddy is bound to tell her about who seem to have a machine gun, my ideas on divorce." Joe and the papers state that the citi-"especially where Kosa is concern- zens are friends of Frankie Fero ed I will see her in what's-this cions, and that it is rumoured the before I ever do her and Frankie parties with the machine gun are Ferocious such a favour as giving
her a divorce. from Harlem.
is "Anyway." Joe the Joker says. I judge by this that there
about Frankie some trouble in Brooklyn, especi-"Ropes tells me ally as about a week after the citi-Ferocious propositioning him, so I zens are scragged in Clinton Street send Ropes back to Frankie Fero- another Harlem guy is found done cious to tell him he knows I am up in a sack like a Virginia ham to be in Brooklyn to-morrow night, furthermore, Ropes tels near Prospect Park, and now who and
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is it but Joe, the Joker's brother, Frankie that he will have me in Freddy, and I know Joe is going a sack in no time. And so he
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"Well," I say, "personally I see JapanBrooklyn will open as much as a 30 percentage in being delivered Back of potatoes without first call-to Frankie Ferocious in a sack ing in the gendarmes, for fear a because as near as I can make out pair of No. 8 shoes will jump out from what I read in the papers, at them, although everybody ad- there is no future for a guy in mits that the sack-making business a Back that goes to Frankie Fero- is picking up wonderfully just at cious. What I cannot figure out,” a time it needs help. But the cfti- say, "is where the joke on
Frankie comes in.”. zens of Brooklyn are complaining
"Why," Joe the Joker says, "the about their Borough being all clut- tered up with guys in sacks, and joke is I will not be asleep in the the Health Department is thinking sack, and my hands will not be tied, and in each, of my hands I of taking steps in the matter.
will have a John Roscoë, so when. Now one night I see Joe the the sack is delivered to Frankie Joker, and this time he is all Ferocious and I pop out blasting alone, and I wish to say I am will-away, can you not imagine, the ing to leave him all alone, because astonishment of Frankie?" something tells me he is
Well, I can imagine this all than a stove But he grabs me right In fact, when I get to as I am going past, so naturally thinking of the look of surprise I stop to talk to him, and the first that is bound to come to Frankie thing I say is how sorry I am Ferocious's face when Joe the about his brother, Freddy.
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"Well" Joe the Joker says, to laugh, and Joe the Joker langhs “Freddy was always a kind of a right along with me. I can see sap. Rosa calls him up and asks that it is a wonderful joke, and him to come over to Brooklyn to I am wishing. I have a sense of free her. She wishes to talk to humour like. Joe.
Freddy about getting me to give "Of course,”, Joe says, "Ropes {ber 'n divorce," she says, "so she McGonigle will be there to start can marry Frankie Ferocious, I blasting with me in case Frankie suppose.) Anyway,” The ~8975; Ferocions happens to have any
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be is going to see her Freddy practically furious," he says, "not always likes Boss, and thinks may only because of Freddy, hat be- be he can patch it up between us. cause Frankie Ferocious wishes me ||So,” Joe `says, "he winds up in sacked up, and Ropes is only too A sack. They get him after he glad to help me out in every re-
claim Boga will ask him to come "that Ropes is with us now to over if she has way idea he will help ng langh.” bezacked," "Joe" szys
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