1938-07-29 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, JULY 29, 1938

CABBAGES AND

KINGS

Says Mr. Peppercorn:

Young George Davis

'came

along with an easy one for a

change.

A countryman went up to town He left home

one afternoon.

with 1 in his pocket and

back with 43.

came

During the afternoon he bought a hat at a hatshop, some flowers in the market place, and had a tooth stopped.

The man's pay day is Friday and the banks are open on Tues- day, Thursday and Saturday.

The dentist comes every day except Saturday.

Thursday is early closing day and there's no market on Friday: George asked us what day the man went to town.

We all spotted it must have been the Tuesday, even old Bad- ger, although he was a bit worri- ed about. Thursday being early closing, as with us it's Wednes- day.

Rather Wet

"

The scene was the bar of the village inn,

"What be th' matter wi' old Garge,"

asked one of the com-

pany.

"He's got fluid on th' knees," said the landlord,

"Ow's 'e got that?"

"Somebody knocked his beer over on to them."

Shades of Dionne Family......

Enery returned home to find that his missus wasn't looking too well and he said to her What's up Liza, yer don't look welk I ain't 'Enery she-replied. Well why don't you go and see the doc- tor bloke? I've bin-Well, what` did-e-siy—'e-said-I-got-quin- seys," Lor lumme replied 'Enery, how many is that?

Ain't It True

A newly arrived American in Shanghai went into a shoe store and looking round said to the pro- prietor "Pretty good" store you've got, quite modern, but heck what an awful smell there is. Vot, the proprietor replied, you vas notice it too. Sure I noticed it, why don't you do something about it? Can't, said the pro- prietor. "Business is rotten."

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All of us at one time or another. must have found ourselves in some deplorable and banal situa- tion haunted by literary parallels and have discovered how actual life provides the untraditional twiat: the untimely hiccups; the laugh in the wrong place. Mr. Graham Greene.

Sayings From Home

It is plain I am before my time.

-Lord Beaverbrook.

I

m.not a politician. I like to be

alone. Sir Hugh Walpole.

It is not clear to me why God made the cactus. ICE. M. Joad.

The fundamental sin this

world is to know what is best for somebody else, and try to act on Frank Tilsley,

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