Show curre wit and 7 T A R 13 11 M I 1 t improvement an australian long resident in america revisited his native country having business bus ineLs with a man on an upper floor of a sydney building he took the elevator to reach the office the elevator was excessively slow and its snaillike snail like progress annoyed the americanized australian gralian tr alian allan he turned to the other occupant 1 I think I 1 could make a great improvement in this elevator he said the sydney man looked slightly interested how he asked why the other went on id make it go faster by a simple little arrangement id stop the elevator altogether and move the building up and down knows his rights bobby mother you have no right to send me to bed without my supper mother why what do you mean young man bobby well the declaration of independence says there should be no governing without the consent of the governed SOME SIGHS mr elephant I 1 dont know the matter with my wife she just sighs sigh s and sighs and sighs mr monk yes ive often noticed her size good news the editor of the country paper came home to dinner wearing a broad smile good news dear asked his wife ill say was the answer you know bill watson the one who paid his subscription in eight years today he came in and stopped his paper the steam engine clara visiting roundhouse what is that enormous thing foreman that is a locomotive boiler clara and why do you boil locomotives foreman to make the engine tender real disadvantage I 1 poor ole bill Es so shortsighted les es working imset to death is short sight got to do with it well e cant see when the boss aint looking so e as to keep on shoveling all the time bears relations hoax what relation does a stork bear to mankind boax 1 I dont know dont keep me waiting hoax either a son or a daughter of course noisy why do you wear such loud socks i to keep my feet aiom going to sleep i HAS TENDER HEART 0 b L why does miss Sch close her eyes when she sings perhaps she has a tender heart 11 1 I dont quite understand maybe she cant bear to see how we suffer taint fair two small boys at the salvation army dinner put their grimy hands side by side on the tablecloth mines dir youral your nill nl exclaimed one triumphantly huhl huh said the other disdainfully youre two years aldern me embarrassed marion look at those gold fish arent they red jack well it if somebody put you in a glass bowl without your swimming suit turn red too |