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Show --MM-B----Ba--BB-M- -------- Others In the Field "Have you proposed?" "Well, I was Just coming to ll when she said she loved Shelley, Wordsworth and somebody else. What chance do I stand with three other blokes In the running?" run-ning?" Jewel In the Rough Said Mrs. Browne to her new maid: "I trust you did not have any high words with your last mistress before you left?" "No, I locked her in the bathroom bath-room and slipped out quietly," replied re-plied the girl. "I don't mind washing dishes for you," wailed the henpecked husband; "I don't object to sweeping, sweep-ing, dusting, or mopping the floors, but I refuse to run ribbons through my pajama jacket Just to fool the baby." Competition Returning to the village after her runaway match, the new bride said to an old gardener: "I suppose my elopement was a nine days' wonder?" "It would 'ave been, mum," replied re-plied the old fellow, "only Hig-gins' Hig-gins' dog went mad the same night." |