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LITTLE FOLKS' CORNER.
ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS.
CUTIE COTTONTAIL'S SPOTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CHUCKLES.
This is significant of the timer :- A city cafe.
Two Polish profiteers.
No. 1: Anything to sell? No. 2: Hm-yes. 3,000lb. phonacetin.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18: 1921
back came out with:-"As no one
apers inclined to say anything about the corpse, I should like to offer some words about real estate prospects in Bouthern California."
BANKS.
This was one of Major Beith's ASIA BANKING CORPORATION
of concluding witticisms:
No. 1: Price? No. 2: 150 shillings per pound. No. 1: Too much. Ibid 100. No. 2: Can't sell under 100. No. 1: Done. They exchange a salo-note and have a cup of coffee.
pause:
After a
No. 1: Now that we have done the business, would you mind telling me what is phenacetin?
"Sud business this about old Smallwoed."
"Why. I heard nothing about it. What has happened?"
"Well you know Smallweed has a large family; nine sons and one daughter, and he has lost his only daughter."
"Lost her! How" "She's run away." "Dear ma! Ran
Where to?"
If an Englishman rescued a mam from drowning he would give as his excuse--on account of his hatred for self-advertisement -that he did so because the man owed him sixpence; some folks would say that if it were a Scots- man that would be his reason.
Perhaps the classic case of an error of mishearing on the part of reporters occurred in Ireland, the occasion being the address to the grand jury in a sitting of the Cork Assize by a celebrated Trish Commenting on "the judge. absence of serious crime his lordship quoted a famous couplet from Tennyson's Locksley Hall:
"Through the shadows of the globe we sweep into the younger day,
Better fifty years of Europe than away! cycle of Cathay."
"To Port Sunlight." "Port Sunlight What on earth did she run away there for? "To leave'er brothers."
Blogge met Jogg", and pro- pounded to him a conundrum.
Said Blogge: "A big fat Ger.
Imagine his horror whon ho found the following morning a Cork daily paper transmogrify his second line into "Better fifty years of Europe than a cireus in Bombay,
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man and a thin little German PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD. wore walking along the street together. The thin little German was the big fat German's son. What relationship did the big fat German bear to the thin little German ?"
'Say it over again," said Joggs. So Bloggs said it over again.
The big fat German was the other's father" Jogga enunciated, confidently.
Wrong, remarked Bloggs.
be right, snapped What was
"I must
Joggs Lestily.
thon?"
"His mother," said Bloggs calmly.
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the 10 Apropos references
of the blunders of devotees "winged art," a ludicrous mistake was made many years ago by reporter who attended a meeting.
by addressed
John Bright. "What do the Italians want?" asked the famous orator. They The want to be a nation." auswer was given in a morning
want to be: paper as "They in Asia"} speaker represented as having declared that "Britain was farther and getting further
of the Land from Promise," when he had only deplored her retrogression from
the
of progrees "! witness betoré a Select Com- mittee of the House of Cóm- Inons was asked if his father: was a partner in the Low Moor Works." In one report of the ovidence he was stated to have
"For the Blood is the Life"
Another political Sufferers
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Mr. Boribble Scratch couldn't imagine what was the matter answered in the afirmative a with everybody, when lessons dragged and nobody seemed to know question inquiring whether his pauper in the anything at all. When he asked Cutie Cottontail what the head of parent wan x
Low Moor Workhouse." Short-) a country was called, Cutie answered absently, "Cabbage."
Autumn fever had got into the last mother's son of them and hand had nothing to do with the nearly everyone bad had his turn in the corner wearing the dunceflight of the Irish reporter who, in describing a storm, wrote: cap Nancy made.
But Scamper Squirrel's brain was working overtine for a good "The heavy raindrops varied in
from Bad Legs, Abacosses. Ulcers, Piles. Glandator Swellings. Eczema. Bails. Phnples and Eruptions, Gout, Rheumatiam, must rule ft the only way is complète and lasting relief is to free the blood of the poucous waste matter. The one cause of such troubles.. Clarke's Binod Mixture contains ingredients
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excuse to get out of school without having the fairy schoolmaster size from a shilling to tighten SAVARESSES
serid Nick, the truant officer, after him.
pence."
He wrote his name in all his books with flourishes, and his ad-
With that inimitable touch of dress, tou, just to help kim think. Then he wrote poems about re- turning the books to him if they were lost. Every time he wrote a humour with which readers of his ) word he shook his pen without watching where the ink was flying.books are acquainted. "Ian Hay," But happening to glance up in the midst of this absorbing busi- who in real life is Major Beith,
CD Micung
"Look at Cutie Cottontail. He's got the measles!" Markie Mink screamed wildly.
ness, something queer on Cutie Cottontail's back caught his eye. Then be grinned. Spota-big black ones were all over Cutie's soft brown coati
Suddenly the plan he had been searching for all the morning popped into his head. He got very busy then, dipping his pen into his ink-well and shaking off the ink before every word.
After awhile he whispered to the little rabbit toy to sit sideways, and later on, he asked him to turn the other way round, all the while writing and then shaking his pen for all he was worth.
Pretty soon Markie Mink soross the aisle looked up from his speller and his eye fell on Cutis--a wonderful Cutie, peppered all ayor with apots like the top of a ralein-cake.
Taucher, toad) ent” he soremad), wildly, shaking his paw in the air: "Look at Cutie Chitoniwili. Epla got the massies!"
Of course Scribble Sumtak dismissed the school: et 'ones, and told them all to take a bwa;digy vasudlam, till the place WAS fumigated.
Such a scurrying in forty directions you never knew.
(To be continued to-inorroio.)
M.C.. recently told many good stories, and was responsible for many clever witticisms, in a leature on Ourselves as others see us." to Edinburgh Philosophi cal Institution.
For the truth of the following. tale the lecturer would not vouch; he told it as illustrating the American love of self-advertise- ment.
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