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Footnotes
Once there was a comp, who arrived home very late at night, rather merry. His wife looked §§§§§ at him. But they looked liked ***** to him!
Reflection
In his announcement one Sun- day morning the vicar regretted that money was not coming in “'quickly enough-but he was no
pessimist.
"We have tried," he said, "to raise the necessary money in the usual manner. We have tried honestly. Now we are going to see what a bazaar can do.”
Miracle
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The old woman at the Ulster frontier was asked if she had anything to declare. Nothing at all. But what was in the bottle- Oh, only holy water, holy water from Lourdes. The Customs of ficer pulled the cork, "Whisky it is," said he. "Glory be to God!". cried the offender; "a miracle!"
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No Fish To-day
Two convivial fishermen row- ed energetically towards the far shore of the lake. "Are the whis- ky and cigars aboard?".· asked "one. ""Yes," replied the other. "The lunch?" "You bet." "The hooks and lines?" Search reveal- ed that the tackle had been left behind.
"Well," said the first speaker, after due reflection, "we'll just have to get along as best we can."
Warm Reception
badly. In all seriousness recent- ly he read out: .socialists at the beach concert" though the copy was clearly: ..socialites at the Bach concert.”
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As we go to press his latest howler when reading titles of some Shakespearian plays was "The Mating of the Shrew!”
A lad like that is too good to remain a mere copyholder. A few more bloomers like the above and he'll have qualified for a reader's job!
“Printing.”
Customs Men
The holding up by the English Customs, of sculptures for the Tate Gallery reminds the Man- chester "Guardian" of other in- stances in which the action of port authorities has caused indig... nation or amusement, Some years ago a famous French Egyp- tologist arrived at Marseilles with a royal mummy among his baggage. tariff list to determine under what head such an article as a Pharaoh could be asssessed for to duty and finally decided-
The charge it as "dried fish." United States Customs office, again, once held up a consign- ment of tropical butterflies for some weeks before deciding to charge them as poultry, "because they had wings." The owner in- quired whether they would apply the same rule to archangels.
Officials searched the
Not So Long Ago
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The teacher, looking over the shoulder of a 18-year-old answer- ing a question on Richard II. was surprised to see the phrase "The
ekeen.was ago a head-woman..
The door of the cottage had needed repairing for many years, but the occupants were quite satisfied to ease it off the floor with a hatchet whenever it jam- *med.
* There was a discrest, knock at the door, and a head was popped out of the window, to see who had arrived. The owner of the head quickly withdrew, and in a voice, that the entire village might have heard yelled, “Quick, it's the new minister! Get the hatchet!”
Copy Holding
r-old copy means well - but reads
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Pointing to the word "ago," he said "What do you mean by this?" The boy's reply was rather confused and, to the teacher, incomprehensible. .. The pedagogue tried to help him. “You mean,” he said, “ long ago,
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or formerly?. by itself did not seem satis- fled.
pparently was not leant, 1. mean, he said, “that she got things done." Then it dawned upon the teacher that whi was intended was, "The Queen was a go-ahend woman !”!
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