THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 25, 1939
The.C.R.C. and H.K.C.C. tennis teams, taken during the match on Monday on the C.R.C. grounds.
Among those at Repulse Bay last Sunday was Miss Reeve-not to mention the surf-board.
Some Hong Kong people visit the AQUAPIUM:
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The Peakiĵe
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The Taipan
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and a Genileman from Ice House St
Members of the interport team,taken at the practice in the K.B.G.C. on Sunday Inst.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
STRATEGY
Officer-"Now tell me,
your idea of strategy?”
what is
out of
Boot-"It's when you're ammunition, but keep right on fir- ing."
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SERVICE
Diner--"Have you any wild
duck?"
Waiter "No, sir, but we can take a tame one and irritate it for 'you."
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BURE CURE
A doctor wished to send a bottle of medicine to a patient, so he call- ed a boy and asked him to deliver it, telling him to call next morn- ing, when he would reward him.
Next morning the boy called and the following conversation took place:.-
Doctor-"Did you leave the medi-
cine?"
it."
Boy-"Yes, sir, and he has taken
Doctor-"How do you know he has taken it?"
Boy-"Well, sir,
when I passed
the house this morning all the blinds were down.”
MATCH
Mike "That's a queer pair of stockings you have on, Pat-one red and the other green."
Pat-"Yes, and I've another pair like it at home."
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FUTILE
Teacher Tourist-"This seems to be a very dangerous precipice. It's - a wonder they don't put up a warn- ing sign."
Native-"Yes, it is dangerous, but they kept a warning sign up for two years and no one fell over, so it was taken down."
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PRODIGAL SON
Jones was a bootmaker. By dint of hard saving he had managed to send his son Billy to a good school, One afternoon Billy came into the shop.
"Father," he demanded, "I want five shillings to go to the theatre."
"What!" cried Jones. "Do you realize that I've got to sole and heel three pairs of shoes to make five shillings."
Billy sat down comfortably in a chair.
"All right, father," he said. "Go ahead, but make it snappy.".
"I can tell
WHITE
HORSE blindfold
...it's equal to a fine liqueur"
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