• Author:
• Editor: B2331
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 2
• Page Number: 3
• Date: March 26 1913
• Tags:
• joke

Pointed Puns

““You’ve made a mistake in your pa- per,’”’ said the indignant man, entering this office, the other day. ‘I was only a spectator last season, and you said I was a scout.”’

‘Well, wasn’t you,”’ said Timmie.

¢“N-0,”” replied Duckie, ‘‘and its con- foundedly awkward, because, you see, I’m on a regular team, this season.

Warden: ‘‘Did you find anything on the prisoner when you searched him?”’

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Overseer: ‘‘ Almost a wagon load of finely written paper.’’ Warden: ‘‘Hold him till we find out

if he is doing ‘crooked work’ or only a reporter on the UmMPIRE.”’

““What sort of a newspaper have you here,”” inquired the recently arrived stranger. :

““Well,”” frankly admitted the Editor, “‘many of the brighte-t writers in here are regular contributors to the UMPIRE, without knowing it.”’