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Show Heartily Sick of 'Em Defending his client,' who was charged with stealing ducks, the lawyer put up a strong case. First, he pointed out that it had not been proved conclusively that the prosecutor had lost any ducks; secondly, the ducks found in the accused's house were not the property prop-erty of the prosecutor ; thirdly, the accused had provided an absolute alibi. Then, just as the judge began to sum up, the man in the dock asked if he could say something. When permission was given, he remarked: re-marked: "All I've got to say is that I'm darned sick of those ducks.. I wish I'd never seen them!" Waste of Time Mrs. Bjones had only one fault to find with her maid. She ignored the telephone when it rang. "You really must answer the tele-phone, tele-phone, Clarice," she said in exasperation. exaspera-tion. "Fes'm," replied the girl glumly. "Seems sort o silly, though. Nine times out o' ten it's for you." Eerie "Why do you always sing the same song?" "It haunts me." "No, wonder. You've murdered it." "There was a time when I believed be-lieved my husband, but that was before we were married." Wife at court. A case of "wed" and found wanting. ' At Least a Relief Voice over phone "Is this Mr. Sofosgoloposis speaking?" "No, it is not." "Well, aren't you glad?" So That's It! It was at a musical comedy. "Why are all the men in the front rows bald-headed?" bald-headed?" she asked. "Because they bought their tickets from scalpers," he replied. After a Struggle Farmer (after the land army volunteer has milked his first cow) "Well, you learned something some-thing new today." Volunteer "Yes, I learned that the man who says a cow gives milk is a liar." |