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Show JOKES THAT ARE HISTORIC Shop Witticisms Inflicted on Every Newcomer That Joins the Ranks of the Real Workers. Tou have no doubt nil henrd of tha "left-hand monkey wrench" which every ev-ery new apprentice in a wagon works is sent after, and of the "Italic thin space" which the printer's devil usually usual-ly Is sent to get, hut William S. Coy, county superintendent of schools, bit hard on one not quite so well known when he assumed his duties as a bookkeeper book-keeper in a plumbing sliDp during ona (if the vacations of his high school days. There was grumbling among the hands because of something that a neighboring plumber had borrowed and which he had failed to return. The bookkeeper finally decided to help out and offered to go to the borrower and secure the needed article. His offer was quickly accepted. "Vht is it?" he inquired. "We want our pipe stretcher," answered an-swered one of the hands. The bookkeeper went to the other shop and to several others looking for this particular article before it occurred oc-curred to him that it would be a peculiar pe-culiar kind of a tool, ludeed, that could stretch an iron pipe. Columbus Dispatch. |