1939-08-25 — Page 21

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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